Mr. Wellmess

Today has been extremely frustrating due to inefficiencies.

Mind you I’m not the most efficient person in the world and am practical to understand problems occur, things happen.

With that said what really irks me about inefficiencies is lack of effort for resolve or accepting them just as such.

Some inefficiencies take our own effort to resolve however when I am the customer or I pay for services its not my job or should it be my job to worry about or correct their inefficiencies with what I consider simple thought and communication.

This is one of those days I have to bite back a little. I’ve stated before I’m not always nice and would like to claim never mean but inefficiencies are one thing that at times can drive me closer to that meanness only in regards of being direct, standing up to and conveying clear thought. I extremely dislike companies or businesses dancing around, making excuses and blaming others especially with companies that provide services of reliability. Its hard for me not to blame individual workers in such businesses or companies too but I realize there are only certain levels of controls workers have.

Sometimes I’m wrong and inefficiencies are caused by my lack of planning or wanting  immediate gratification. I guess that’s part of staying driven where and when sometimes people don’t realize, know or care why I’m driven nor do they need or have to know. I need to realize and understand that but damn it’s hard.

So this is a healthy blog before I go resolve a problem of inefficiency.  In some respects what I need to resolve both is and isn’t a big issue but it is important for me to evaluate myself, keep myself in check and be aware/conscious of how I can handle it more professionally without being mean.

The happiness factor of one particular business today was gone from all employees to multiple customer interaction. The only way I could justify a manager not stepping in would be if that manager were blind literally although this day they might have to be deaf too.

In a broader scope and on a broader view maybe I should work for a company of seamless clockwork design and timing. I would feel pretty happy and normal that way unless I had the responsibility of clockwork maintenance.

As much as inefficiencies irk me and I want immediate resolve many times I don’t want to be the one of resolve even if I do know how to fix it.

If I were the boss of any company, project or endeavor; today would not be a good day to call the boss a cry-baby. After all I need to pass my own pissed-off test.

I ranted this one out today as logically and as rationally as I could.  I’m going to stay calm, assess the significant prioritizing what I need to do, do good and quit rambling. I’ve heard some people say CEO’s can be big babies too. Surely that’s not true and of course I’m not (A CEO) but I’m wondering where else such days are happening trying to think like them. Maybe just maybe every once in a while they need empathy too. It’s so damn easy to criticize from the outside looking in but they don’t always make the big bucks because of name or fortunate being born who they are. I’m coming to the conclusion that well-structured companies have empathy from top to bottom. Kind of sounds like a weird concept in the business world but somehow I see it coming for many companies. Even in the cesspool of Hollywood and media as some would say.

All in all I think it’s good and healthy for everyone to be able to convey how they feel. There are some temporary overwhelming decisions being made in big companies currently and its one time in business empathy is important. People with money and control don’t always have to make bad decisions for society especially with just a wee bit of empathy in play. You can’t get carried away with it but it doesn’t take much empathy for those people “the powers that be” to make better decisions. Before you or I bitch about a company and their decisions imagine how you could do it better and be fair to everyone. Certain times you just can’t but maybe even from some lowly or even outsider nobody level such as myself  if you try you might come away or run away with a whole new perspective.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

You know they say never write a story or movie about screenwriting and perhaps that is so. However a multiple creative story line about understanding a creative in a practical sense can be interesting. Maybe only to people like me or have my interests at heart too though.

Perhaps just this silly idea is better as a blog thread or perhaps recruiting tool.

The Picture Painting Screenwriter?… (Looked name up on google in quotes. Looks free for the taking right here and now. Seize opportunity).

The Picture Painting Screenwriter

“I take you on a walk out my door leading you to nowhere but imagination bringing you somewhere.”  (Better look this up in quotes too.) Well… quote looks safe too.

The Picture Painting Screenwriter

A.K.A. Mecky Mixiler ( Made-up non-existent [via google and other search engines] D.B.A. intended name not legally registered perhaps not necessary)

Mecky Mixiler the picture painting screenwriter takes you on fabulous witty fun -filled adventure exposing glimpses of a wondrous expanding creative mind that has never been understood in a more practical way. You will understand a true creative and his true creative value. He takes me to a place I want be over and over again.

Vision of what they would say if mission was conveyed well and accepted with concrete stories, effort and standardization delivering such mission.

Mecky Mixiler (Storyteller)

The Picture Painting Screenwriter (Screen and Television Writer)

“I take you on a Walk Out My Door leading you to nowhere but imagination bringing you somewhere you might want to be.”

Just having a little fun showing another quick creative/social side of self.

Eh, not saying its the greatest but in reality this stuff isn’t quite as easy as one thinks.

Back down to me. (Actually up)

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

True Story:

So they are painting the building wherever I may be.

I went outside, sat down next to a nearing bare wood railing, looked over. Low and behold; what did I see?

A tiny speck of a paint chip.

I wet my finger, gave it a light dab, picked it up, slowly brought it towards me, eyed it; intently with a contortion-like face and slightly squinted eyeballs bringing it to great focus. Then and I thought. What food for thought.

How many out there ever heard or perhaps by slim margin were asked or told. How many paint chips did you eat when you were a kid. Perhaps a variation might be parent to parent asking how many did they feed him.

Ext.  Apartment Building, Second Floor – Wherever- Day

Sunshine glares, causes reflective gleam on a one hundred feet long open-air canopy hallway design with several apartments spaced in symmetry. Floor is fading wood and near bare wood railings although outer building facade is well-maintained vinyl siding.

Mike exits apartment door in a ponderous, inattentive, distract able state, adjusts hat, cross arm rubs back of left shoulder, meanders towards his familiar chair.

You get the just. Sometimes it helps to see yourself. Revisiting the idea of being the picture painting screenwriter. Probably because I get bored just being a screenwriter not that it is in any way easy but you kind of get the knack after 10, 000- 12,000 hours and near ten years of it. It’s kinda like whoopee and don’t ask how I intended that.

My creative/social side.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

Value

What an odd word.

Sometimes I think value is a subconscious subjective unspoken word in some facets of society including business.

Perhaps companies that bring to light value understand that.

Value is much different from a “value” brand because branding is an assimilation. Yet even in the lowest capacity of value (assimilation) we pay attention whether our cause be to comply or reject.

Companies keen on value know this. I know this.

My goal is to bring your value up to a value. Everything  has worth but our take on everything is value.

However worth and value are much different.

Worth is quantitative where value is qualitative.

Funny how seemingly insignificant food costs can imply such a thought process.

Consumer’s aren’t silly or irrational but sometimes I think they want to be and perhaps “value” is one of those immediate avenues to such.

I know because as a consumer I seek the value.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

You know my whole life all I ever wanted to do was excel and do well at whatever endeavor I set out on. I didn’t always want to be the best but I always wanted to be damn good at it.

I need to remember that on my adventure in research today. Be good. Do good. Seize opportunity and surround myself with the most knowledgeable , most helpful people I can.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

Eh, one of those nights I really don’t want to blog. It’s not because I don’t have anything to say; it’s because I’m in action mode.

Bottom line: Talk is cheap, so is blogging and personal social media management. Really talk of anything is cheap even if we are fortunate enough to be damn good at it. I’m not saying it isn’t important or necessary but what is necessary is action and follow-through without success being the ONLY driving force.

Maybe that’s the difference between successful dreamer’s and those who aren’t. Successful dreamer’s plan and do without success being the ONLY driving force. In fact the more unsuccessful endeavor’s in your foundation only adds to your foundation as long as you do your best, really make attempted efforts and finish the project. (Very important finish the project). Even the best out there fail and shows get axed for no apparent good reason. There is no such thing as perfection in this business with regards to everyone likability. It doesn’t exist even in the reality of the greatest fantasy worlds on Earth. We project facade’s hopefully more likable than not. That’s the reality. Creator’s go through an unbelievable amount of angst, torture, twisted messes, every emotion imaginable for their belief in their facade’s; even one’s established. Getting sidetracked here.

So no matter how eloquent anything is delivered in words; it B.S. without follow- through and action. That’s the difference.

I’ll tell you the truth in a way I don’t want to write a human interest mostly non-fiction period/era work but if I don’t I’ll regret it.

I see it, believe in it and already I have written the first thirty pages or so in my head and that’s why I know it will work researching the details I need. Actually writing the damn thing should take six-eight weeks spec. or piece work contracted for first draft.

So off I go to seek fame and fortune tomorrow but you know the only reason I’d ever want fame and/or fortune is to create more stuff impacting the world, the masses of humanity with beautiful satisfying consumable media and no this isn’t Miss America talking; I truly believe in that damn it.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

“As we accept ethos as our predominant driving force may we never forget to appeal to logic and human emotion”.

That is all for today’s blog.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

Word origins and vernaculars are cool.

While today was not intended for being one of those hem haw days it is Saturday and maybe I should forgive myself for hem hawing around.

Hopefully searching the origin of hem haw and dating it to timeline of American culture will be useful, in fact I’m already thinking it probably is.

Oh fither dither, doubt if fither is a word but no worries, I guess it (Hem Haw) has perhaps musical reflective origins from hum or hon as well. Wonder how relevant it was to Duke Ellington or Jazz vernacular of the thirties. Sounds like something Flapper Girls might have used.

Hemming and a hawing  around how profound hey I think I was supposed to think first before typing or using words. Maybe I’m not that type. Maybe I am that type.

LOL! sorry bout’ that.

Just looking it up in real time as I blog…

(Cool Idea… Though processes writer’s go through when researching word origins in real time. Maybe even a vlog.) Eh, most writer’s rooms probably are already all to familiar with this practice.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

So as I’m planning my demographic society (box of work) I realize I have a much larger (box of work) to bring to the table as I packaged a sitcom and wrote four episodes a few years back based on modern times of the same demographic I’m working on today.

What’s really cool is that projected events in proposed sitcom have taken place and the relevance timing is current now, Ugh! like today!

Ugh!I really wish an agent or manager would say hey do you need some help.

I will say demographically speaking this only a two project versus multiple project demographic.

Ugh! I wish I had an umbrella movie and television production company to work with.

Lol! Looking this over maybe I should follow the Ugh!’s.

Ugh! I feel the relevant “pulse” and  right timing of this project in the relevance of  successful, money-making, profitable, likable CURRENTLY  CONSUMED media.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”

Can I help a rather good and somewhat national subsidiary franchise peak national exposure running parallel with a movie development and launch even promoting the main franchise.

This difference is this movie is half franchise and half paralleling a timeline of world events changing scope from narrow documentary to a human interest story reflecting a broader picture of the times: a real human interest family thriller movie as some would say not that documentaries aren’t considered such to me.

Will I “pitch” this idea so well that it may indeed be turned over to someone more experienced or better and could I live with that even if I receive creative rights. Perhaps I should even expect that.

I’m really overwhelmed trying convey crowd-source potential but with all that said I really believe in my concept and its a movie reflecting a subject and time I’d like to see.

I suppose I’m just practicing.

Michael Lee Burris

“I will never stop driving a creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination always needing genuine help along the way.”