The Starbucks Theory

I never bought into the idea of sitting up in Starbucks with my laptop, but Saturday I did it for the first time. Surprisingly amidst the chaos of a chess competition, loud jazz music, and middle-aged cigar smokers, I managed to get 10 pages of my spec done. It's the most of a spec I've done in one sitting. Usually when I'm at home, it's hard for me to concentrate because of other distractions like the dog, the loud a$$ neighbors, the TV, LAPD's finest circling the neighborhood in helicopters, and the guys down the street who have to let everyone know they have dual-exhaust on their old school El Camino's. That's what I get for moving to L.A.

Starbucks provided a weird solace and a hard chair that made me focus on the screen in front of me. Armed with the pilot script of the show I'm doing the spec for, I managed to use the outline I wrote at home to spit out 10 pages of a draft. Now here it is Monday morning, and I'm sitting in another Starbucks preparing to do the same thing. I have one more week before I go back to work so I plan to use Starbucks as boot camp and get this draft done.

I'm not sure if it's just the idea or simply the change of environment that sparked my "pen" but whatever it is, it worked. I just might have found a new home. LOL Now, excuse me while I write, I've got TV money to make.