Swim, Sink or Drown?: My life for 2006.
January 05, 2006

Well I'm back from Japan, back from the Holidays, and getting ready to go back to school.

Wow.

It's been a bit of an odyssey since the irony of February 2003, the soul spiking event that sent me off in a new direction, a risky direction, yet one goes right to and through my dreams. As I look to June of this year and beyond, I wonder if my gamble, my leap into the unknown and unknowable, is actually going to pay off or if I'm going to smash head-first into a whole lot of disappointment.

Still, so far its been worth the trip. If nothing else, I know now that writing, and screenwriting in particular, is something I really do enjoy. It's defiantly something I'm good at, and it might possibly be something I'm great at.

Am I going to "make it" though?

One of my professors, the estimable Marc Norman, late of Shakespeare in Love fame, said one of the things you have to convince yourself of is that you can't not fail at what you're doing. Failure isn't an option.

Honestly, I don't know if I buy that. Failure, like success, has many definitions, many parts, and while there's a fair amount of it that's within your ability to control and mediate, much of the rest is simply outside your purview. Success and failure contain parts of choices made by others, circumstances far removed from an individual, a fortuitous assemblage of coincidence. In short, luck.

How lucky am I going to get? How much of my prep will allow me to take advantage of that luck, and what lack of preparation, unforeseen and unknowable, will I have to scramble to make up for? And what will ultimately torpedo me?

I wish I had answers. Heh, heh. But I'm a question guy. For good or bad. I too wish I believed in fate, in Providence, but again, nah. It's good for stories, but in Life, alas, it doesn't exist.

Anyway, as a preview for 2006, I've got many things in the works. On this site, I've got a couple of new entries coming up. While they aren't as entertaining as those based on this guy's life they suit me. You can expect to hear some Tales of the Electric Toilet and Other Observations on Japan, also What I did for Sex... err... Science and the newest edition of The Short Shoot Diary. There will be news on three screenplays (both old and new,) a new short story, perhaps novel rumblings and, if things really work out well, a pretty cool web (and more) project.

Okay. Gotta do some other work.

Until next time, something I think on, so you might like too as well:

Wendy: But, Peter, how do we get to Never Land?

Peter Pan: Fly, of course.

Wendy: Fly?

Peter Pan: It's easy! All you have to do is to... is to... is to... Ha! That's funny.

Wendy: What's the matter? Don't you know?

Peter Pan: Oh, sure. It's... It's just that I never thought about it before. Say, that's it! You think of a wonderful thought.

Posted by Jody at January 5, 2006 04:36 PM

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