Good News Everyone!

HAHA! The puppeteer pulls the strings. I know this faith is madness, but it is consistently rewarded. I got a call back from a very interested job, doing customer service for a company that sells survival gear. They wanted to hear from me today, but after explaining my situation, they pushed it back to Friday. So Friday I've got a job interview doing customer service for a company I have genuine interest in. I've cleaned and cooked a rattlesnake over an open fire. This is a thing I am really happy about, guys. It's kind of perfect for me! They let it slip that I'm a top contender. No jinxing it, but still...

Good news number two. I guess I'm a mentor now. My high school bestie Nate has expressed interest in screenwriting. But he's on step one. And I believe in him already. He's got adequate support, and he has plenty of time in his day, as his seizures put him on permanent disability. But he sees this as the potential to provide for his family in the way he's wanted to all along, and I respect that mentality. I was motivated by desperation as well. But I found the breadcrumb trail on my own. I've come a long way. I'm on screenplay number eight, and I think I may be good enough to contend with the greats. But this is good for forcing me to keep on. I thought Cloud would be my padawan, but she's got her own plan. And if this can bring good things to the lives of good people, it is MY privilege to be involved. So today, we got him set on that. But he's doing horror, and I'm doing epics. Potential overlap (and we have some overlap ideas planned for the years ahead), but not direct competition. It's beautiful, really. 

So now I'm working toward this in hot-blooded earnest. I'm done with the first draft of my new script, and it SUUUUUUCKS. But every other one did too when I first started, and this one has the potential to enter into my portfolio. It's a solid stand-alone, but I've set it up for trilogy potential. I think that's exactly what they want. So I plan to be back in Colorado in the next few days. And when I get there, it's going to be epic. I'm going forward in earnest with the editing on this, hoping to end the summer with a complete portfolio. Three scripts, one genre, and they're all 100% different. Showing my diversity and talent. I can do a war movie, an intrigue movie, and an odyssey, and I can make them all shine.

So we burn the boats. Go to this job, pay off my bills, do what I must, and once me and Cloud move in September, I'm marketing in earnest. The days of being unable to date for lack of gas money are at an end. The days of washing my clothing in the shower are over as well. I'm done rationing out my food to ensure that I eat every day. I'll never sleep on a mattress on the floor of a roach-infested apartment for a day in my life. And I'm never discussing student loans EVER AGAIN. 

It's almost time to save my world!