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In the Spotlight
You Need a Crane to Build Your Career
by Jaden
Whether you are a screenwriter in Budapest, or a cinematographer in Hollywood, or a fiction writer in Buenos Aires, there will be difficult days when you want to resign.
Maybe you struggle financially. Maybe no one wants to look at your work. Maybe you can’t figure out a scene to connect the beginning to the end of your story and three months have passed without typing a single word. Or maybe, after ten years, you still don’t know what the heck you are doing.
Think about your favorite writers or artists; what if they had given up their craft one single day too soon?
You need to have a sturdy crane in your life who has true confidence in you and will help to lift the heavy materials on the days you are feeling weak.
This friend or family member reminds you: You’re just having a bad day, you can do this. You have come too far to give up now. Who else can [fill in blank] as good as you? The way you [fill in blank] is like nothing I have ever seen. You’ll get there, just keep at it. Be patient. Learn more. Educate yourself. Find that missing key.
Lots of people don’t have the crane person in their lives. It is essential to have support. Strangers like me can be your crane. On the Internet, you can find people with similar goals and interests to root for you. Connect with them. Open up and talk to people. Share your conflicts and obstacles. A support group will help you on your way quicker and more efficiently than when you are alone.
Having a network of support while you are building your career relieves the angst of hard days and keeps you on track.
Tagged It! Top 5 Reasons Why I Love to Write
by Jaden
My dear friend Melissa from Writing Forward has challenged me to write the Top 5 Reasons Why I Love to Write.
1) I like working alone. It’s peaceful. These days, I would rather write dramas than live them.
2) I already talk too much as it is, so I need a place to go where I can talk endlessly without annoying anyone. That place is in my journals, novels, and screenplays where people can opt out if they tire of me.
3) My mind is constantly reeling with ideas and thoughts that I have to get out of my head. New story twists or character traits thrill me.
4) I like to help people. If someone can avoid a tragedy after reading one of my horror stories, that’s great!
5) Writing is my life log. The thing that pains me the most when old people die is that all their amazing personal and historical experiences are GONE!
Even the tiniest of insignificant details are interesting when time passes and everything changes.
I encourage ALL people I meet, young and old, to write! Some day, even the most boring life will become fascinating to those in the future. What is boring now is totally different than what was boring 100 years ago or what will be boring in 100 years in the future. Think about it.
Think about how bored young Anne Frank probably was when she was hiding from ignorance and hatred in an attic. And now her journal is one of the most famous journals of all time.
With retrospect, a simple life becomes fascinating.
Imagine finding your great-great-grandmother’s saucy teenage diaries! The language. The dreams. Did any ever come true?
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