Spent the weekend working the daygig with lower back pain, leading stupidly to hip pain since I wound up limping from the back pain. Better now after resting on my day off and playing with The Prince, even if he did wake from his nap and slap me in the face. Twice. Seems he chose to slap his mother in the same manner this morning, so I guess all is fair, at least until one of us goes off to work with a cartoon-caliber throbbing red handprint on our cheek some morning.
Since I had the day off, we spent some of today discussing whether I could stand to ditch the daygig. Ever heard the one about the devil you know being better than the devil you don't? Guess which devil is looking most attractive? Like it or not, I'm realistic about bringing home at least some of the bacon, and the research I'm doing into jumping into freelance work isn't looking rosy. I used to be a fulltime video editor in the event industry and made a good name for myself, but that was some years ago and when I tried freelancing there a year or so ago, my old contacts had run dry. I've given some thought to a video-related business that I can pull off with minimal investment, that may pan out for some dough even without giving up the daygig. In the end, that damn Financial Security alarm keeps threatening to wake me up, or at least drown out all other thought.
As I was running through all this today, I got an e-mail from my old friend, a reply to my e-mail alerting him to this blog. To say it was encouraging would be an understatement. I've received a lot of great feedback here so far and every day makes me feel more positive, but in the back of my head I was waiting to hear from this friend since he was there at the very beginning, accepting the idea that I could be a professional screenwriter as a matter of course. Now, he is one, and he's been an inspiration professionally and personally, always positive where I can be negative, always hustling where I'd be wondering where to get a cup of coffee and sit down for a minute, or a month.
I feel like I can see more of the road every day and it's thrilling to lace up and start running.
Progress: Underground may undergo some minor surgery, but I want to give priority to continue working through the first draft of Mouse, conceived as a low-budget thriller. When I get short time to work during the daygig, I'll hammer out treatments for my road comedy about sci-fi geeks and the drama about the end of an Old West town.
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Yeah, I know a few people who have sold scripts or who have careers, and it's refreshing to see that there's no magic bullet -- they are just people like us who wrote a good script.
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