the door opens, just a bit
August 05, 2002

So I've been accepted into a writing program that I didn't even apply to.

Seriously.

I'm taking an extension class from admission and learning a lot. I get an email from my professor last Friday saying that he loved my work, thought it had a lot of professional potential, and that he recommended me to the Graduate Certificate Program at admission. I talked to the director of the program later that day and she said that I was in -- I just had to send along the paperwork and my check for several grand.

Bam.

That's amazing. Totally unexpected. Totally wonderful.

Didn't even have to pray for it...

It's funny too. I've been spending a good chunk of time writing a spec script for a writers program at Warner Brothers (due August 16th) and then this admission thing drops right into my lap.

While I have no illusions that I've "made it," the door in has opened just a bit. While there are still thousands of thousands of other people competing for success (or for a living) I'm entering into a smaller set of perhaps tens of thousands in competition. By the end of this year long program at admission, I'll no longer have an ice-cube's chance in Hell of making it in Hollywood.

I'll just have a snowballs'.

(See... snowball has more mass than an ice cube... more mass can survive longer in the heat... You guys still aren't laughing, are you? ...this is why I write drama and not comedy...)

Posted by Jody at August 5, 2002 02:59 PM

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Posted by: mike at August 5, 2002 09:08 PM

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