That would have been funnier if Thing had been a thing.
It occurred to me today that Disney have a Writing Fellowship. I’ve known about this for literally years, but it’s never occurred to me to apply for the damned thing. Looking into the application requirements, it seems the application window for the 2012 fellowship was May 1st to June 1st of this year, which means I’d have less than a week to pull together everything they need. While I don’t doubt I could pull this together, it’d be a rush job. I’d much rather take my time and get everything done in a neat and proper manner, so I’m going to hold up until next year’s application window.
This means setting myself deadlines. Traditionally, deadlines are poison for me. I’m terrible with them. The further away the deadline is the harder it becomes for me to muster up the interest in fulfilling them, but if a deadline is close – within a handful of days, say – I’m more inclined to get it done.
So… wait, does that mean I should apply this year? I may have just trapped myself up against a wall with my argument, here. Wow. I honestly didn’t expect that to happen. Maybe I should put together an application this year. I can at least try. If I don’t get accepted I can simply resubmit next year, right? Right.
Blimey.
Edit: Y’know what? Sod it, I’m going to have a go this year. Will I make it? Will my application be up to scratch? I don’t know, but it’s going to be a lot of fun finding out.