Seeing the future

Greetings and salutations my friends,

Today I feel I should talk a little about the life of an overly ambitious person and I'll clarify that by explaining that my current goals include finishing the following:

1, I've started writing a book and I want to finish, publish and sell a few copies of it.

2, I have a 24 hour movie shoot planned and want to have the movie edited, marketed and for sale too.

3, I have 2 scripts that I want to do quick little fixes on and then start to market (rewrites are done but not put in on Final Draft yet... I'm a pen and paper kinda guy!).

4, I want to plan the biggest party of my life for April (when I turn 30).

Now it would seem like these are pretty modest goals, nothing special there you say. Yeah, these are my goals for January... I'll just let that sink in for a second.

Why would I take on such a load in just the first month of the year? Well the answer to that is really in my BIG goal for the year 2012, I want to be a professional writer and that to me means that I do not have a job that doesn't involve writing. The way I see it is that if I work hard I can totally make enough money from my writing/film career to fund my bills and car payments and rent and still have enough money to look presentable and buy some fancy blu ray special editions of my favorite movies.

I've been writing for a few years now but if I'm honest I've always held back a little, I always allowed myself to fail... not fail just not succeed because I always had the excuse that I had a job that I had to go to, I have to do this or that or the other thing, I'm helping someone do something else. Well, from now on I take no more crap, from now on I work for me and me alone and that means that I work hard and I work all the time.

If you've read this far I want to share something very important with you, I love writing and I'll always write for as long as I am able but there are people out there who write because they see it as a lottery, a quick cash scheme. I don't know how those people do it. If you don't love writing then please, don't be a writer. Be a singer or a guitarist or an actor or a mime or a magician or whatever it is that you DO love, just don't take up the place that a passionate, valuable and talented writer could of had if you truly don't love it.

Now I leave you with this... I have 30 days to finish a book and publish it AND make a movie and release it... you better read that again because one of us is crazy!

Write On!

Dave The Screenwriter