I guess my goals are similar to many others, but stating them "out loud" will be a good thing for me.

I plan to be more active on SS, specifically reading and reviewing.

I have a very bad habit of rarely finishing anything I start, which is why have only one script available to read on SS. I plan - NO, I WILL - change that in 2010.

I need to force myself to write, not just think about what I want to write. I've learned that it's far too easy for me to be lazy, and the only way I ever accomplish anything is through momentum. I know I have to get words on paper (on screen actually), no matter how painful it is - I must start somewhere in order to get somewhere.

I'm also a very habitual person, so if I get in the habit of being lazy - and I am in that habit now - I get nothing done. But if I get in the habit of being creative and productive I can sustain it - I think.

Confidence has always been a problem for me, and the fear of failing has kept me from trying. I believe that I do have *some* talent for screenwriting and I'm slowly developing skill. The one script I have had posted here got some very positive feedback (Last Cigarette from the February 08 OWC), and I should have used that boost in confidence to write more but I didn't.

I'm rambling a bit...

My short term goal is to tackle some small projects, specifically the OWC entries that I started but didn't quite complete (there are three). Good or bad, I'm getting them done and getting them out there.

Frankly, I've felt like a fraud for far too long. I've been on SS for 4 and 1/2 years, and expressed many opinions, but, due to my creative inactivity, I always felt like I had no right to do so. I'm going to earn that right in 2010.

~Pete

New to the forums, folks.

I just finished a spec pilot script for a TV show that centers on the tension between one's college-age ideals and the wielding of power on behalf of those ideals.  Hopefully you'll see it posted on the site in the next week or so.

Anyway, my goals for 2010:
1) Get feedback for the aforementioned pilot, do a rewrite, and submit it to contests, agents, etc.
2) Complete a second episode for this spec TV show.
3) Work on my first feature-length screenplay.

This may seem like a modest list, but considering it took me years to finish a novel I self-published last year, and have only just started with the whole screenwriting thing, I think it's an ambitious list for 2010.

I'm hoping to have three features up on these boards this year.  One feature is already written, but I won't be able to post it until November (long story).  I also hope to get representation.


Phil

Quoted from sniper This might be the booze talking, but I wouldn't mind seeing seeing Sandra naked in 2010. Or Bert.

WTF?  Guess I missed a few things while not around on New Year's Eve...

Quoted from Grandma Bear well...Bert does come to mind and I haven't even had any booze...

Hm...and now I do not think I have had enough booze to respond to that properly.

To either of them, actually.

I'll have to give Pia a rain-check for next time I go posting under the influence.

Rob gets nothing.  And likes it.

My own writing goal for 2010 -- for those who might care -- once SoulShadows is complete, I am really going to make an effort to wrap up Starbuck Starr this year.

Thought I'd dig out this thread since 2010 will be over in less than seven hours (GMT). Having looked back through...it makes for interesting reading!

My 2010 goals, as stated about 367 days ago, were:

- write 3 features
- write a 'handful' of interesting, filmable shorts
- get a credit on a finished film by the end of the year

#1 didn't happen. BUT! I've got a live-action short in post-production in Canberra (an extensively re-written version of Colliteral Damage), and thanks to Michael I've just managed to tick off #3. A decent year, although I'm disappointed with myself on the features front. Can't really explain why I didn't do it, either. Tsk.

So everyone who posted on here at the end of '09: have a look back and see what you said, and whether you accomplished it or not! Be interesting to see how people did, and maybe share some stories about what you did accomplish in a writing / film-making sense this year. For instance: Breanne didn't mention anything about shooting her own film in 2009, and yet she did! Rick, what happened to that first feature? James - where's that zombie script?

Also, if a wonderful mod could re-title this thread something like 'Goals for the Year Ahead', then we could all post 2011 goals? Rather than starting a new topic and clogging up the boards and portal. Mine are:

- write those bloody features (I want the first one, Little Furry Bastards, written and posted by the end of March)
- get onto IMDB (hopefully the Canberra project will play out well)
- get some hands-on experience on film sets / in the industry, in some capacity

Anyone else?

P.S. Looking back through, it's a shame to see some once-familiar faces who've moved on to pastures new. Niles, Matt Dressel, Rob...hope you're achieving happiness and success wherever you've ended up, guys.

P.P.S Oh, and Happy New Year! Wish all of you all the best for 2011. I have a sneaking suspicion I'll still be here to see in 2012...

Quoted from James McClung Write a romantic comedy, write the best zombie movie ever made, rewrite my third feature from scratch and network my ass off. 2010 is gonna be a big year.

Bold is accomplished.

The best zombie movie ever has got a full blown treatment and a few scattered pages. I doubt many here will think it's the best ever but it's gonna be a straight party movie, designed to have its audience blacked out from alcohol intake and unable to watch another movie by the time it's over.

My third feature is not worth salvaging but I did make some headway.

Indeed, 2010 was a big year. I think I managed to accomplish a lot more than the more meager aspirations I set for myself in 2009.

2011 looks to be even bigger.

I never made any goals for 2010 due to the fact that I knew my writing would take a backseat to the birth of my son, my family move, my job promotion and a bit of traveling.

So, in regards to my non-writing accomplishments for 2010 - they were a grande success.

For 2011:

1. Finish my 3 feature scripts I am currently working on.
2. Take back my creature feature that has been in development help and re-shop it.
3. Compete in a OWC again.
4. Call it a day.

Stew

PS - for like the 10th time, I've just surpassed 700 posts. Let's see if I can keep it above 700 this year.

My goal is to continue writing and rewriting-- everything upon the Great Aleph and with such a master, what's a gal to do? Really, the certainty is the great uncertainty. Let's see, the best goal for 2011...

To be in The Zone. I'm sure you can agree. Hope to see you there.  

Sandra

I've not actually hit any of my 2010 goals. Although I did get something made which wasn't an original goal.

Well, I did hit one of my goals. The one to write something that actually means something. My short "Focus" made it to the finals of the Namibian Film Awards.

Another goal was to be a better person... well, I'm still having a hard time with that I have a bit of a temper, but I'm still working on it.

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New Goals For 2011

To get my comedy feature finished, and produced. (There is a little interest in it)

To maybe write another comedy, too or maybe a romatic comedy.

And a goal not related to screenwriting: I'm gonna win big either on the lottery or at blackjack, and become a millionaire.

Best wishes to you all for a wonderful and prosperous new year.

Cindy

2010 goals were:

1) "Revise the hell out of a 156 page adventure I wrote this year (09)."  Did that and am happy with how it's coming around.

2) "Maybe write something else."  Did that too.

3) "Get back into regular script reading on this site."  Well...I read all the OWC's anyway ha-ha.  

Goals for 2011 are: Get my new feature posted, write another feature, write at least 5 shorts, get at least a couple of those posted, and out of James' book, network the hell out of myself.

Greg

Quoted from Grandma Bear I agree that there are a lot of people that have left that I miss...

Yeah, I noticed that too.  Why did these people leave?  Rob was a regular.

Well, in the past year I joined two additional peer review hubs, including this one. Both have kept me on my toes. I am still meeting my goals regarding feature lengths and rewrites.

But the best thing is that 2010 closed with a bang....as it will kick off 2011 with two short scripts of mine being filmed- one intended for a film fest market (I even did some additional work on it per request by the filmmaker as he wanted "a hallway scene" and "an office scene") and "Clean Up Crew" shoots in the next month or so in LA.

The second (Breaking Eggs) was still a bit iffy, but the Inktip newsletter the other day got my hopes up....and while the same fella looks to do a Stephen King Dollar Baby on the side---the mere idea of my name and King's in the same sentence boosted my ego before the ball dropped.

(I know it's nothing to get that excited about--but it's the idea that counts)



A step up a ladder. That works for me. For the moment...

I wrote in january of last year...

I have been writing now for 1 year. My goal is to have a feature length script I have in a competition to at least make it to the quarter finals.

To rewrite my first full length script is on my agenda for 2010 as well.

My main third goal is to do my hardest full length yet ( I stopped doing shorts after my second one) and see to it this script brings to light a long over due mis-justice that needs to be brought into the light.

Shawn.....><


I was able to complete those goals along with two shorts and another feature as well last year.  So all in all it was a good year.

This year, I have two scripts in two seperate contest. I hope to do well in both. It is my wish to complete two feature lenght scripts and a 10 part series for which I just started on.

BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE IN 2011.

Shawn.....><

My goal for this year of 2011 is to direct and produce my Sunset Summer film, and get it into theaters by next summer - thought that's another 'goals' list

Also I plan to have my Dreams of Reality script completed by years end.

And have steady work as an actor.  

To recap:

-Direct and produce Sunset Summer
-Become a working actor
-Complete Dreams of Reality

I think's that pretty much all I have at this time. I have a couple of shorts that I'd to film, but they are not as important as my top 3.  At least not yet.