Making contacts and building relationships is hard work, but can sometimes pay off. A manager picks up my script and loves it.

I barely have enough time and energy to keep up with one life. The crossroads are approaching.

When the creative wave hits you, there suddenly isn’t enough time in the day for all of the things you want to do.

I got my first credit card when I was 18. Or maybe I was 19. I’m a little fuzzy on the age, but I do remember having just started college and it was one of the credit cards that are supposedly “geared for students.” It had an $800 credit limit. I was going through a deep depression and working a barely-above-minimum-wage job in directory assistance at the time, so it was no surprise that I relied heavily on this seemingly “free money” to anesthetize myself regularly with cigarettes and video games. I maxed out that baby, right quick.

A couple of years later, working another Job of the Damned in retail, I applied for a Discover card. Surprisingly, I qualified.

I got up early this morning to watch Get Smart before it left my local theater, which typically isn’t a problem, except that I was up pretty late on Friday, writing with my co-author on this stage play that’s been in the works since ’97. Things are going well — extremely well — but that means inspiration can keep our eyes off the clock for hours on end. Then next thing you know, it’s 1 a.m. Throw in half a pack of cigarettes, overpriced, pretentious designer coffee and you can bet that my sleep wasn’t too restful either.

I inevitably fell asleep around 3 or 4 p.m. and didn’t get back up until around 7. No good.

It’s one of life’s great cruelties that containers are always constructed too small to hold the things we want to store inside them. Luggage, moving trucks, garages; it always seems like if they could just hold a little bit more, they’d be perfect! Alas. Leave that second pair of shoes at home. Make one more [...]

Well, probably not, but according to my Web stats, someone from Silver Pictures (Joel Silver’s production company) stopped by my site a little after 9 a.m. today. Check it out: Most likely, it was one of his many assistants, probably the one in charge of Internet PR, who was Google Alerted at Joel’s name being [...]

Current Projects: Update 2 Well, looks like we have a little forward movement on my Quadrilogy project. If you’re late to the party, click on Current Projects in my Categories section to the right and look for the very first post in that category. Anyway, I scheduled a sit-down with Mr. Actor over lunch this [...]

The title is probably a misnomer, since “mixed emotions” typically describes conflicting emotions, which I’m not necessarily feeling right now. I’m feeling a lot of different ways about a lot of different things. I just happen to be feeling them all at the same time. First, I’m pretty tired. I’m not sure if I’m just [...]

As a copywriter trying to transition into a more creative professional writer, I think it’ll do me – and hopefully my readers – some good if I keep track of my current projects. This idea came to mind when a friend of mine, who I’m possibly collaborating with, reminded me that I need to get [...]

These essentials will actually be appropriate for most journalistic events, so whatever the occasion may be, here’s a good starter pack.