So this is where I have been for the past month and where I will be for the months to come:

I’ve started taking  screenwriting classes.

I’ve never actually read a script, I haven’t put much thought into what it takes to make a movie or a tv show and last year after helping on my husband’s campaign I was ready to jam a pencil into my own ear if I ever was tempted to sit in front of a computer and write anything for any reason ever again.

So this screenwriting class almost didn’t happen.

But the fact is I love to write and I love to tell stories so I signed up and off I went.

It was all good until it dawned on me that I was in a class with people who knew what they were talking about, they understood the industry and they had favorite screenwriters.

I have Rod Serling. And I tossed his name out there when we were talking about screenwriters we admired.

So at that point it was me and Rod sitting in this class- and had it been in the real world and not on -line I could picture us in the back of the class face palming ourselves when I hauled off and threw his name after someone dropped the name  Alan Ball and I had to google ASAP to find out who he was.

He turned out to be a very big deal.

Geeze.

But you know, that’s okay because, well, because it was funny I guess- and if  I am in a situation even the awful ones and I can laugh I know I am in the right place and that I am going to be okay…better then okay in fact.

So for the past month I read scripts, I’m studying from a book called the Screen Writer’s Bible I did my homework and when I handed in my assignments I learned that I was not a complete chucklehead with the creator of the Twilight Zone as her inspiration to become a writer and her guide into a completely new area  of writing that was completely alien to her.

However, if you are going to stand on a bridge look down into the abyss say to yourself, ” Oh yeah, let’s do it ” that kind of enthusiasm for adventure and the excitement for turning a corner and finding yourself in a strange world doesn’t come  our of thin air.

It comes from the Twilight Zone.

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Where I am taking my classes:

Academy of Film Writing

Info

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