All the reasons I started the blog were things I truly wanted, but time is a fickle thing. Sitting down and typing out some thoughts at the end of the day seems like an easy thing, but in the build up of pre-production I was wearing far too many hats and the ‘blogger’ hat was buried under many more important ones. As time wore on I was able to shed hats or pass them off to other folk, still though the blog didn’t warrant much thought.

Early on I was a one man set construction crew, but with a sort of unspoken transition my brothers and dad took over much of that. I’m bad at social media and publicity. I don’t think I’m bad at creating content, but I’m piss poor at maintaining a constant presence. Seeing my lack of consistency my fiance, who was also working on many other aspects of the film alongside me, took over much of that. She kept up the twitter and Facebook page, and then later got help from one of our co-producers. But none of that really had much to do with this blog.

I’m sure me posting here would have given our growing base of followers, interested in the film, a better look at the process and perhaps an attachment to our project, but I just couldn’t make the time.

In a way that’s a bull shit statement, I could have made time, but in the last few months before we rolled cameras I just plain didn’t want to. The film was taking up nearly every minute of my days with things that very directly impacted production. The blog was an aside, a half indulgence, or meant to be a way to vent. But I didn’t want to vent at the end of most days, I simply wanted to sit down at home and not think about the movie for half an hour or so before I passed out.

Now though I’ve had my time not thinking about the film. After we wrapped filming I think I went a good month very pointedly not thinking about it. And thus hope that being able to write some posts here and share my experience will come a bit more willingly.