When you’re guerilla showrunning, you’re always short of time. There’s always more you want to do in less. You’re playing catch-up to industries with millions of dollars that themselves are always hurrying. You’re trying to make a show with you and a friend in your garage on a weekend, when the guys making “24″, with millions of dollars and top-name stars, spend as much time panicking about how much time they’ve got as you do.
The last things you need are goddamn time vampires.
Time Vampires? Yeah. Those little invisible buggers that soak up hours and hours you don’t notice. They aren’t the big important tasks that take ages (like editing your episode, for example), they’re the little things that just sit there eating time and leave you pissed off and frustrated to boot.
Some of the biggest improvements I’ve made to my show creation over the years have all been about staking time vampires to the nearest solid object. Because if you’ve got an invisible annoyance sucking hours out of your project, it doesn’t matter how 80/20 you are getting about the rest of the gig, it’s still going a lot slower than it could.
You need to stake the damn vampires, now. Or, to put it another way, fix the sodding dripping tap, already.
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