For my Love

The reason why I put links to screenwriters' blogs is for my own personal inspiration. Working two jobs has given me a new outlook on what I want in this world. I have to make my mark. I know that I'm a good writer and I haven't actually written a screenplay yet, but I know that I will. It's in the cards. It's hard-wired into my being.

I may not be acting in anything at the moment, so writing this blog is my creative outlet, besides attempting to learn how to write a screenplay. I'm training at my retail computer job, where learning about the products I find exciting. I need a side career or a side of me needs to grow and learn something that will have an immediate impact on my life, and this computer job is providing that for me.

This may not be the stragitforward way of learning how to edit films, like going to the creme de la creme of film schools, NYU or UCLA, but it's roundabout, and Roundabout ain't just a theatre company in New York. It's the way to get an education without having to pay obscene amounts of money for tuition or textbooks. In fact, they will train me to learn so that I can teach others. That's the food stamps way. And although I don't live on food stamps, I can appreciate the glue-y quality of adhesive paper squares.

I'm putting my heart into it. I am a trained actor, but I am an untrained screenwriter and filmmaker. I consider myself a film-watching expert, analyzing, breaking it down, and respecting the artform for all it can provide humanity. I beleive in film, and I want to partake, somehow, some way, I will be in or make films in some matter. That's why I'm taking my introductory screenwriting class write now. My classroom... the subway. My text books: Screenplay, Story, How Not to Write a Screenplay.

That's enough for now. I'm taking it a chapter at a time and doing the exercises. It's not NYU, but it's a start.

It's for my love of art and expression, and for the love of my wife. We are doing this. We are having a family. We are buying a home, and are able to live comfortably. That's the mantra. That's the way.

So, I link to professional screenwriters as a part of the mantra, and despite what is going on in the world, the fear-induced return to the nuclear threat and a war with no end in sight, I will have this. I have my love and that is how I'll change the world.