Get your Freak on

Haven't posted in a while. Been pretty insanely busy. Here's the updates:

Got my first official 'film industry job' at Anonymous Content as a office PA/floater. This is a management/production company and a great place to get my foot in the door. I told one of the managers I wanted to be a screenwriter. He told me I was in the right place.

Stoked on that.

Another great thing that happened full of possibility: the comedy pitch I sent to someone I knew in the industry was liked by her boss above many others they were receiving. Seems the story idea I started working on in my UCLA class paid off. The script is called 'How to Hide a Boner' and while I won't share the premise on this blog, it is a story I am very passionate about, so I believe I will enjoy working on it enough to push through it. That is of course, if I'm hired and possibly PAID to do it. Even if they don't go through with it, I still may write it since I just spent a hardcore week completing a thorough outline on it after 12 hour days at
Anonymous Content.

Say YAY for me. And Yay for small steps in the right direction. I keep telling myself, if I get paid to write a script before I'm 25 then I will be satisfied.

Freed Men is in great shape on the new draft I've been working on, hopefully that'll be done within a month.

A great quote

"Every time I write, I find myself going through a form of self-examination that is almost a kind of therapy. By creating and examining my characters I find myself questioning my own motivations, my own character. By creating problems for these characters, I look at my problems--and sometimes find solutions. If I get angry at something, the way teachers are treated in this country, the low opinion of women in combat (despite a few thousand years of history stating otherwise), I write about it and get Mr. Holland's Opus or Courage Under Fire. Trying to come to terms with my own combat experience, I delved into those subjects in Courage..., 84 Charlie Mopic and War Story: Vietnam.

Every story and every character has a part of me, good guy or bad, and I share their emotions, good or bad. I vent rage, weep, laugh, and all without exposing anyone else to my angst and dramatics. I take my worst psychological problems and work them out on paper. I think writers, like other artists, go into dark corners where most people have hidden the dangerous parts of their lives. Writers go into these closets in their minds, pull out something most people don't want to discuss or admit, and say, 'Look at this. This is how I feel, how I think.' And the wonder of it all is that no matter how despicable, dreadful, or embarrassing that thought or deed may be, it is often universal. The audience recognizes it and experiences that same emotion vicariously, safely."

-- Patrick S. Duncan (Courage Under Fire, Mr. Holland's Opus)