Dear steemit diary,
It's day 4 now and I guess I already broke my amount of daily posts in a row-record. Let's see how long I can keep this up.
You can find part 1, 2 and 3 here, if you got time to spare. And if you don't, you can still find them there. Or just continue reading this page. Whatever you feel like. I hope that sharing the process of my search for consistency and my discoveries along the way, might benefit you one way or another.
The past 3 days I discovered a couple of things:
- I love to talk film and can't help mixing up my posts with film references.
- the diary format seems to help me a little.
I'm not necessary talking about blogging on a daily basis, but using daily stuff as inspiration/ writing fuel helps me to be consistent. - Stream of consciousness writing seems to work for me.
It helps to stop me overthinking everything.
I also learnt - realizing that right now, while I listen to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album - that listening to English music/ lyrics while writing is kind of distracting. - It helps to be (home) alone, with as few interruptions as possible.
Turns the vinyl off.
"Sorry Michael. Not your fault."
That's about it. My lessons learnt so far.
CUT BACK TO TODAY
So, I'm home alone right now.
It's early afternoon. I had lunch and 3 coffees. That's about my daily intake.
This morning I felt pretty stressed, for a couple of reasons. The main one is probably still the cryptocurrency world and right now the worth of Bitcoin. As one BTC is nearing 10.000 US Dollars, I can't help checking the current prize neurotically.
Yesterday, I had a missed call from my parents. I had a hunch that my mom wanted to check in on me as she heard about the rise of Bitcoin. I was right about that. It is starting to really reach the national news right now, back here in The Netherlands. I guess it has to do with the nice round number that 10000 represents. Even though I don't have a lot invested in crypto's, it's most of my money. Plus, since I started investing, a little over half a year ago, I really believed in it. My mom said something nice to me, roughly translated:
"I really hope this is going to work out for you. You deserve it."
Being my mother, she has seen me struggling for a decade or so. Not just financially but in many ways. That must be tough for her. To make a long story short, I have always been looking for some kind of way out (of the system) and investing in this market might definitely be that thing.
BACK TO PORTUGAL
That is where I see my near future. Living of the land in the mountainous north of Portugal. Yesterday I sent out an email to the people who's little house and land I consider buying. If I wouldn't be so impatient and fed up with life out here in Holland, I could probably wait a year or two - to grow my crypto portofolio - and then buy that house myself. I am impatient though - and got my eyes on this sweet little house - so for now, I will stick to my plan: asking my parents for (financial) help. Although I stated earlier, that I planned to go to Portugal this month or in December, I made a decision yesterday: I will wait till January. Here's why: the owners of the house aren't there right now. They are actually in The Netherlands, but so busy that we can't meet up before they're back in Portugal. That will be January. Although there might be a possibility for me to go there before that date, I prefer them to be there to show me around. That would make the decision-making - Do I actually see myself living here? Am I gonna buy this house or not? - a lot easier.
In the meantime, until January, I will stay here. Steemit and the crypto world will probably keep receiving a lot of my attention, besides 'real' daily life.
AND NOW BACK TO TODAY
and then my writing was interrupted by a 1.5 hour Skype call with my filmmaking / screenwriter buddy Ted. It is 6 hours earlier where he lives (North Carolina), but for me it's now time to start cooking dinner: Vegetarian lasagne it is. With cheese of course.
INSERT PICTURE OF THE LASAGNE
I will finish this post later tonight...
[Believe me when I tell you that this lasagne tasted way better than it looks on the picture]
After a cooking-having dinner-getting my sister's kids to bed-break, I found it very difficult to get back to writing. Another lesson learnt. Breaks really break the (writing) flow, especially long breaks. Nothing new I guess.
So you know what? Let's end today's post in a bit. Not sure why, but I didn't get to talk about films either.
Talking about films, this afternoon's Skype chat with my filmmaking buddy was worth breaking up my post. We hadn't talked in a week or three. Back when he and I were working on our cancelled/ paused Spanish feature 'Los Ojos Rojos', we talked via Slack or Skype on a daily basis. Things change I guess. Still love to talk with him though. He and I still feel that we might get back to collaborating on one or more film projects in the near future. We really got it in us to make something great. It just didn't work out last time.
In case you missed my earlier posts on filmmaking and want to learn more, here's some links:
A litte intro of me with clips of some of my movie projects:
@vincentnijman/the-diary-of-a-micro-budget-filmmaker-part-1-living-the-dream-or-the-nightmare
@vincentnijman/diary-of-a-micro-budget-filmmaker-23-07-2017
and my most successful post out here:
TO BE CONTINUED
Saludos,
Vincent