Mr. Wellmess

I found it interesting that my trip to the library yesterday was one that came up empty.

Maybe I’m onto something because the information requires a trip to the next place that I was secretly hoping I would have to go and been imagining.

While its not rare nowadays that I’m on the right track I do have hopeful feelings because this time it is exactly the way envisioning research first, is in reality going.

This wee bit of information is also right as to why the picture of a somewhat familiar group or demographic hasn’t been painted what I consider well before.

I just hope the next stop on the adventure of research will be as gratifying and maybe even surprising. This is also the step on research adventure where crowd sourcing seedlings can be planted.

I really hope in retrospect I can look back and tell you all how I got this movie made beyond simply screenwriting it. Who knows. Will the stars align?

Michael Lee Burris

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

Research requires that I physically go to the library today because I actually can’t find what I need on the internet at least not without a library card first.

One of the very few times I’ve actually had to utilize a physical library researching foundation for a screenplay I’m going to write.

I’ve researched environments, area’s, demographics, specific locales and locations physically  before but this info I need is a toughie… well maybe. Someone smarter than me may know the exact resource I need.

Point is: as a collaborator know when to surround yourself with someone smarter than you. If you need help: ask, it will save you some time. Oh and jot down the specifics as specific as you can be as to what you need so you don’t forget and can ask.

I know it sounds simple but it helps me to just be conscious of it.

I’m going to go hop in the shower while I contemplate my notes and questions.

Perhaps my headline is bit dumb as we all know there are physical libraries but how many times and how many of us still have to use them.

Michael Lee Burris

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

Its Tuesday and I have another commitment to another site but daily blog follow through is still essential.

I find it kind of fun and interesting that my current project takes physical digging through public and semi-public archives in order to paint and understand a picture of the times for the visual I need.

May be an interesting aspect as to my voice and tone of screenplay in this instance.

Iconic moments and dialogue of fifteen seconds could be worth fifteen hours of research at times. Probably more content than that but damn it I know it will be worth the work and effort of digging. Maybe I’ll even get lucky enough to develop two minutes periodic screen time from it.

I do know of instances up to with forth coming wheres the kings English weren’t always considered. Not sure hows to writ all thissin here stuff yet tho.

Michael Lee Burris

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

Went for a trip to my hometown over the weekend. I’ve been travelling a lot the last year and whenever I come to my home town its a mixed feeling.

I guess I still have hometown pride but I felt somewhat more of a stranger at this year’s parade than years past.

I don’t know maybe its growing, maybe its letting go.

From a screenwriter’s standpoint ever notice how most parades at least small town to medium town and their accompanying carnivals really show windows or glimpses into a community. I got to thinking how relevant parade scenes are or aren’t in movies especially low to medium budget.

This weekend specifically was a neat picture to paint.

I’m not going to screenwrite it here but I’ll paint it. (“True events perhaps sensationalized a wee bit.”)

Time was ticking near six o’clock on a hot, muggy, humid July afternoon. You could see the crowds anticipation but this particular parade this particular year was a scenario with split human and animalistic anticipation as everyone’s senses were periodically turned to a dark forboding purple hue sky with flickers of multi-colored yellow and orange lighting wafting the sulfer smell down assaulting the crowd. Periodic sprinklings were falling. The split view of sunshine ahead and mother nature’s dark force behind really caused a buzz and rumble of the crowd.

Some of the crowd had awareness to leave. Some of the crowd had decided to stay. Everyone who did stay was prepared as lighting flickered and thunder rumbled while sirens blared with flashing lights. The parade and the storm both were seemingly forthcoming but it was as if the community had the power and will to push the thunderstorm around them with all their might or they thought they would not be denied their gathering, community voice. You know, why they came to be where they are, their sense of purpose.

The rain stayed away other than a few droplets, the wind shifted allowing the town to evade the storm, have their parade and finsish their sense of purpose for that event. Me too and that’s before I even paint the pictures of character. Hmm. The screenwriting painter. Interesting concept.

Michael Lee Burris

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

I finally have my computer built the way I want it. Blogging everyday, following social media etiquette, quick accessing resource.

As a collaborator it is always good to have multiple resources with quick accessibility and organizing that information in some easy accessibility fashion.

This media business takes such non-structured creation and very detailed structured business.

That brings me back to the three me’s and realizing how important separation is between business sided self and creative sided self.  The inevitable will cause some blending of personal/business/creative self but the more separatist I can keep those boxes of thinking the more successful or at very least the more balanced person I will become. I think, hope and believe but man are they two entirely different boxes of thinking.

Oh yeah, here’s the go. I have set a few hour block at my peak creative time tonight to focus on my movie. I have been in undertone development, foundation research mode if that makes sense and I think it does.

Michael Lee Burris

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

I have two blog sites. One is about music or lyric or storytelling relevant to rhythmic music and this one.

As I was blogging over on the other site just a bit ago I wondered to myself what is the best creative separatist approach to the two boxes of thinking. Would the best approach be to blog switch one after another  or wait a while in regards to posting.

Following my intuition at the same time wondering how this is at all relevant to collaboration or be helpful in getting people to know me I figure when you are a creator and you need a creative separatist mindset it is good to periodically look at a couple of things of at the same time or chronologically quick to train my brain to have awareness of overview as well as focus.  This also allows to have to think critically and conscious of both boxes of thinking.

So I guess collaborator skill wise I understand some foundation elements of multi-tasking.

I have always said someday I’m going to create something so big it will take forever to convey as I gave up on the reality of people understanding… So I thought, you know, I’m going to be the one to enact creation sort of thing. Well you can’t do it without people supply and you better figure out how to come down off your high-horse is what I now know. Be aware, dream, imagine, imagineer but understand people can and do understand too. That’s the first step to becoming relatable I hope. I need to simplify and focus “Pitch”. Complication is usually foolish and annoying to others are maybe some lessons for myself from this blog.

I’m am always a working on a project sort of guy but I want to be a just finishing up on a project or slated for work what’s next project type of guy. You know get the nose out of current project, look up, adjust, think, don’t lose total focus on current project and still delegate self in a more simplified manner way more sensible not over logical to all.

Michael Lee Burris

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

OK. I can’t dedicate a lot of time to this blog today but I must blog something everyday.

Knowing myself and what skills I can bring to the table as a collaborator is also knowing how to bring what’s happening in different aspects of life to the table.

With any project delving and diving it is good to get out of your head, out of creative mode and  put the intuition of knowing its time to do something practical into play.

This allows for better dedication, breaking stress and stepping back.

So when I’m driving that creative revolutionary wheel of desire and determination I need to always be knowing recognizing patterns as to how truly powerful a mechanism that wheel of creative desire and determination is and don’t wreck it. It has different speeds, gears, breaks and handling too. I need to drive different on different journeys and in different environments as well as different times. I need watch the traffic and flow of the people around me too. I need to know when to slow down and take a break from driving without ever stopping the mechanism.

Michael Lee Burris

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

Patience, annoyance, niceness.

This is the business or taking care of business collaborative persona

To continue with intuitive foundation building of collaboration I guess knowing my beliefs will help too. I never tried to sell myself as a collaborator. I guess letting people get to know me some really is the key to the “Next-step” at least in beliefs with taking care of business so to speak.

Patience. I don’t always have patience but for me its truly because I am one of any collaborative team that has to stay driven.

Because I don’t always have patience I’m not always nice but not being nice also causes more tolerance for annoyance which in turn allows me to rarely and I’d like to claim never be mean and still remain task, goal or project focused.

These are not sugar coated beliefs of and about me but what I think is realistic collaborative understanding and skills one must possess for creation of media.

Humor.

Humor and looking on the lighter side of life is more my social/personal collaborative persona.

Michael Lee Burris

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

Perception.

Perhaps its my bi-polar, yeah so I am, big deal I care about my condition and that’s what truly matters.

The perhaps I speak of, is that perception can be heavenly or hellish and its not up to us per say to make up our own minds but it is up to make up our own beliefs, knowing and intuitive recognition of patterns causing our perceptions.

Perceptions are craziness because it takes a while for collective intuition to kick in when working projects at least in my eyes and with the few different perceptions that I can allow myself from many different point of views.

I’m following intuition here but I believe what I wrote above will in some way help me be a better collaborator. Besides I have to blog something everyday.

So as part of my daily planning even on Sundays I need to blog.

As today is Sunday there isn’t a whole lot to say.

Going to start getting back on Stage32 just to see what’s happening and to chitter chatter once in a while.

Doing my Twitter thing. Almost up to 1,000 followers but hey I didn’t buy them and think I’ve been choosy who to follow too.

I have a Youtube channel and while my phone does OK for video. I probably need to get a better set-up.

On a business aspect I need to learn how to get crowdsourcing to  crowd funding.

Nothing overly exciting, ramble worthy, or rant worthy today.

Michael Lee Burris

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