October 18th, 2007

Some days I’m not passionate at all about writing. Today I’d be hard pressed to say just what I was passionate about. I started this venture of writing wanting to do nothing more than pen comic screenplays. Simply put, I just wanted to make people laugh. Breaking into that line of work requires an association with someone in the business however. No matter how good the work might be you’d stand a better chance at winning the lottery than getting one of your screenplays optioned and made into a motion picture. The competition is overwhelming. So many people want to write or say they’ve written. I’ve met many people who tell me about their book or script. No one ever meets a dentist and confesses to them that they’ve been working on filling molars in their spare time. Few bump into a librarian and tell them about their idea to better the dewey decimal system. Lots of people write though and lots of people want the world to know what they’re writing. I admire their passion and on cloudy, rainy days like these, long to feel as excited about the venture as they do.