Dreams Can Come True

Last year I made a choice. I decided that I would become a writer. I have wanted to become a writer ever since I could pick up a pen (or a crayon to be exact). The problem was that I never was able to finish anything. I would start writing a book and I would get a few pages in and the momentum would die. The only thing I was able to complete were haikus. In college I bought screenwriting software so I could write a hilarious comedy about my life working in a college liquor store. I wrote two pages and then stopped. I figured that writing was not for me and I gave up. I went the 9- 5 route and would become an average joe. My first job, I only could keep for 7 months. I got bored and wanted to try something else. The new job, lasted 6 months. This continued on this pattern for another year or so until New Years Eve of 2009. I found out (via Facebook) that someone I went to high school with had died tragically in a house fire a few days before starting her new job as an elementary school teacher. There were quotes n the newspaper from her co-workers, from the restaurant she worked at during college, about how excited she was to become a teacher and how proud she was that she was going to educate the young. I read this and I thought, “when was the last time I was happy to go to work?” The answer was NEVER. I sat down and wrote a screenplay. To make a long story short, I am now writing my third screenplay and will be headed to Los Angeles to try and sell it. I have not yet sold a feature film, but I will not stop until I do.  I also, with the hlep of others, was able to write and produce a short film. I went into the project only wanting to be a part of a project from beginning to end. With a lot of hard work I was able to accomplish just that. I submitted it to a few short film festivals hoping to get into one of them, but to my surprise I was accepted into several and with my acceptance was granted an official title page on IMDb (Internet Movie Database). So I am now a credited writer, producer, and actor on IMDb. I am not using this to brag. I am using this to encourage others who feel hopeless and angry and desperate. Achieving your goals is possible. I have a long way to go still until I consider myself successful but I continue working hard on my craft as a writer and as an actor. 2010 taught me that I should never give up on my dreams because life is too short to be upset (especially at work).