Movie – don’t think twice
- Host dinner parties to solicit good feedback (even if they’re just over for pizza)
- Sleepwalk with me project
- Write before 7 am, before your inhibitions take over.
- Tim – Started 4 hour workweek as an email to a close friend.
- Writer in notebook when possible. Magic screenwriter when digital.
- Bonus points for meaningful notebook.
- When procrastinating the writing process, sets a coffee date with himself to write. Leaves a third person handwritten note by desk to remind himself.
- Starts with stream of consciousness when writing. “only emotion endures”
- Puts up mind writing quotes in his work area when creating content.
- “art is socialism, but life is capitalism.”
- A small dinner party can give you as much development info as a big corporate spend with focus groups.
- Tim – to solicit writing feedback:first ask people to highlight sections that are unclear.
- An early cancer threat showed him that life is short. Facing death made him push the boundaries and perform.
- Don’t bow to the gatekeepers of any field you want to get into. You are the gatekeeper.
- Sleep. Ease into it, don’t crash into it.
- Effective comedy – start terribly and land it amazingly.
- Instead of spending marketing money, he spent that on being a walking billboard for his latest film. Including hosting free comedy workshops nationwide.