Here's a lovely view of Sunset Blvd at sunset, after my class was finished. I'm standing on top of the parking structure next to the LA Film School. The night before, there were even students filming a project there, and it brought back fond memories of doing short films at Colorado film school.
Even though I was unable to meet with the manager who was interested in my pilot while I was in LA, I still met some awesome people in my screenwriting class, and I had lunch with a friend who works as a story editor on the animated show Thunderbirds Are Go!
Side Note: I was helping an old roommate clean up her house last week for a move, and saw her kids watching the show Rescuebots. I was like, "Dude! My friend Patrick the story editor totally knows the people who write for that show, and here I am, listening to it in the background, which means I'm a friend of someone who is friends with other people who write content that is being played, right now, in thousands of homes across the world. AWESOME!
Over lunch, Patrick told me that since I've finished an original pilot, all I need to do is write another animated spec, a live action spec, and then he can shop my scripts around to his friends who will be hiring writers for their own shows next year!!
As amazingly awesome as that was to hear, I have to admit that on the inside, I was staring at him with my jaw on the floor, thinking, "I just went through 18 months of blood, sweat, tears, and emotional torture, and now you want me to do that all over AGAIN?!!!!"
But hey, maybe the next script will only take me two months instead of 18. I'm crossing my fingers that all the blood, sweat, and tears means that eventually, I'll be able to write dozens of scripts off the top of my head and churn out tons of stories every year, and finally be like my favorite author, Brandon Sanderson, who writes a dizzying amount of content and shows no signs of slowing down or stopping.
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