Hey everyone. It's me, Hallease. Endeavoring to persevere ... is the
audio rolling? Yes. Praise God. Alright.
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Hey everyone. It's me, Hallease. Endeavoring to persevere, as always. If you're new here, I
make videos about my chaotic good life. Subscribe, follow, social media ... all the things. It's been
a while since I have updated you on a little side project, little side quest, that I am working on
here on this channel. Little thing called "Hardly Working." For those of y'all who don't know,
it is a five-part series that I am co-writing currently with Evelyn from the Internets.
I am trying to get it going and get it produced here, to go live on this channel, or her channel,
somebody's channel, hold this show (laughs). I wanted to give y'all an update. I feel like every,
every month or so I just wanna check in with you on how it's going behind the scenes,
what's going on, how I be. And obviously, if you're on my Patreon then you already
know everything and this is a bit redundant for you. Sorry,
in the next Monday Motivation it'll just be us again like it always is.
We are officially over halfway done with writing the five episodes.
We are officially halfway done, over halfway done technically, writing the
episodes of the show. We have episodes one and two written as well as episode five written.
So! Things are progressing. I know that sounds weird, you're like, "Wait you have episodes
one and two written, but like, you skipped all the way to episode five? That sounds strange."
Don't worry about it. Live your life and I'll live mine. Sometimes, you gotta know where you started,
amen. You gotta know where you're starting, amen, episodes one and two. Then you gotta have
the vision, you gotta have the foresight to know where you're going, amen, to get to that final
destination. Amen. So, that way you can write the path. Okay? So you can find your path in
the middle episodes four and f ... episodes three and four that we're still working on.
We have created something from scratch, like legitimately,
we have created something from scratch that has been funded by y'all and we're that much closer to
finally getting it to go live somewhere, somehow, some way. If you're super duper new here,
you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, but you're here for the chaotic energy,
Hi, I'm Hallease. Welcome. Subscribe. Back story, I had this idea for this
five-part comedy web series about two secretaries doing everything but their jobs.
I told Evelyn about it back in 2019 I wanna say when we were ... or was it 2018? No, it was 2019.
Back when we were working on "Say It Loud" together. I was like, "Iono, man, don't you
think it'd be cool to be funny, ha-ha. Don't you think it'd be just neat-o to be funny ha-ha on the
internet for a little while. And she was like, "Yeah, definitely." It's been so fulfilling and
rewarding to come up with an original show, web series, from scratch and have these writers room
meetings with Evelyn where we're both just like, "I don't know. Anything's possible!" (Laughs)
While we've been writing it, I mean these characters are very much not us but it's so
much fun to figure out ways to insert quirks about yourself, or insert these extremes about yourself
into a character. And so, I'm just having a lot of fun. Honestly, I'm just having a whole bunch of
fun with it. I truly feel like one of the things that brings me the most joy is just making things.
I just really enjoy making things. I really love it when I get to make things with my friends.
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So, the show originally started as that little elevator pitch that I just said to you at the
beginning. The show "Hardly Working" is about two secretaries doing everything but their jobs.
That's the elevator pitch. That's what you say. That's your quick sort of logline of
what the show's about. From that sentence, two secretaries doing everything but their jobs,
we figured out what kind of secretaries they are. Are they even secretaries?
What kind of office is this? Where is it located? Who are these two women? We've
gone through multiple iterations of who these two women are by putting together these pretty epic
character bios of each of them. And then, after that, I went and wrote a five-episode treatment.
A treatment is basically the overarching theme of what happens. It can kind of read like a story
sometimes, like a short story if you want, or it can just be a little more haphazard and basic.
Honestly, a treatment is whatever you want it to be. It's a way for you to know what happens
throughout the whole season. So, I took a day and wrote that whole thing. Then from there,
we split up the work and created a beat sheet for each episode based on that treatment that I wrote.
A beat sheet is kind of a no frills, no thrills explanation of what happens
more or less of each scene of an episode. It's a way for a producer, maybe,
to see how things will progress in a film, or in a show, or in a show, or whatever the thing is.
We split up that work and finished a completed beat sheet and then from there,
honestly, now the easy part has been writing the actual scripts of the episodes because
we did all the heavy lifting of what the story actually is beat sheets, and treatments,
and all of that kind of fun stuff. And character development, knowing what each character would
say. I will say taking the time to actually do a full character development and character diamond
for both of our characters made the dialogue of writing the scripts that much more easy because we
had this reference document of who they are, and how would someone like that respond to something?
Reference back to that character development document. So, this whole process has been
very artistically fulfilling and creative and also very formulaic. I know a lot of people,
when they think about art, and they think about the creative process. I
know artists like to be like, "Oh, it's so ethereal. We just float in the wind." Or,
"We're like Thoreau. We go to a cabin and then come back with Walden," or whatever it is.
And it's like, no. It's ... It's trying to find one plus two to make three.
Sometimes, you find one plus five and you make ten and you're like, "Oh! That .. No, that don't
work." You keep building and messing with the bones of the formula until it actually is a solved
math equation. For me, that's my creative process. So, it's been really creatively fulfilling for me
to go through writing and creating a show with my friend.
We still have a ways to go, obviously. We're working on the last two episodes now,
but we're like almost there. Those of you who are on my Patreon, y'all have already
read episodes one and two and five. Y'all have told me what you thought about it. Thank you so
much. If you're interested to take a look at the episodes, the treatment, the beat sheet,
all of that, first off: spoilers. Remember that. There will be spoilers.
I'm the type of person, I don't care to know what happens to know what happens in the end
of something because I really do enjoy of watching the journey of getting there,
and like performances and all that kind of stuff. So, if you are interested to check it out:
patreon.com/hallease. There, I have a master post right at the top that shows
everything, all the hidden gem content I've created about what
we're both doing in the background with the "Hardly Working" series.
Go check it out if you want to. Otherwise, thank you for supporting this channel by liking,
sharing, subscribing. All of it helps. All of it helps, but I will say a big, big thank you to
people that have joined the Patreon because like I said in the last update on "Hardly Working" it
is because of y'all that I have been able to completely pay Evelyn for her writing,
for her co-writing with me on this series. I have been able to completely pay her because of y'all.
I just love being funded by y'all. That's just like really cool to me. I don't know.
At the end of every Monday Motivation I always say what I want for my Patreon producers to have at
the end of every Monday Motivation. For this one, I will say to you viewer, watcher, person ... er:
I hope that you have a week ... I hope that you are coming into April, 'cause now we are
in April. I hope you're coming into April feeling like spring has sprung. You know I'm saying?
I hope you come into April feeling anew. A lot of states are trying to deal with people trying
to take away their right to vote and other such things, but, you are still here. You are
still endeavoring to persevere. I hope you feel a little twitterpated. You know. Those of y'all who
know "Bambi," y'all know what I'm talking about. I hope you feel a little twitterpated. You know what
I'm saying, I hope you feel a little twitterpated. 'Cause spring has sprung.
I hope you feel that things are possible. I hope that you can come into this week feeling
abundantly minded. Thinking abundantly. That is what I want for you this week. In the comments
below, what're you trying to channel this week for yourself? Let me know, 'cause I'm always
curious to know. And or just tell me how you're doing. Just, how y'all be? This is an exchange.
This is an exchange. I wanna hear from you. In the comments below, how are you doing?
For real, for real. Maybe we need to give you a virtual hug. That's okay. Let us know,
and we will. Anyway, if you made it this far in the video, hi (laughs). Subscribe please,
'cause I'm a mess and I'll see you when I see you. April 19th, 2016: my locs are ... 2016 to 17, 18,
19, 20 ... My locs are five years old this month. Time is wild. I feel like I'm giving you "Hocus
Pocus" with this look. I was tryna think if I could try something different with my hair.
Now it's getting longer, I'm like, "Oh, let me try do something." But now I feel
like I'm giving you "Hocus Pocus" vibes. I feel like I'm giving you,
super quirky aunt. I feel like I'm channeling super quirk aunt with this hive of hair
situation I've got going on. And um ... I'm okay with that (laughs). I'm okay with that.