Getting Back in the Game

Since it's been almost six months since my last post I think it's time to either get back in the game or fold: I choose to get back in the game!!
It's not like I haven't been writing, but I haven't been FOCUSING on my writing. Distinction? Hmmm... difficult to say. Perhaps it's because my eighteen months of unemployment has made me a little...UNSTABLE? Nawwww, that can't be it.

Actually I've done more creative thinking just trying to earn little bits of money here and there to somehow make my rent payments, pay my car and insurance bills as well as the utilities. But there still lingers in me the desire to pursue this crazy craft and complete the specs I've got in my head! And with this desire I've continued, as I always have, to keep reading and researching a very wide variety of subjects. I also RELIGIOUSLY follow other blogs on the craft. ScriptShadow, Go Into The Story, and Just Effing Entertain Me, are my daily staples.

What do I get from them? Why do I take my coffee first thing and sit and anticipate and read what these people have to say?
I guess it's a feeling of involvement because these three writers all share an exorbitant amount of passion for what I and WE all do: write. Beyond that, they have all created a very eclectic group of followers which somehow grounds me back into the craft, no matter how depressed or worried I am about the daily dilemmas I have to endure, I know I can get back into "the vortex". That's a word from this New Age "thinker" my wife is getting into. I hate the method they use to make the idea of "thinking" your way into riches or prestige or what ever you want. Plus they charge a hefty fee for this "knowledge". But I guess just to placate my wife I've been using the phrase when something or someone isn't doing what is expected.Also I'm being sarcastic in a secretive way.I know, I'm an ass, but damn, I can't help it!!

So to continue, when things aren't going my way, getting involved in the discussions on these writing sites is therapeutic.It grounds me back into writing and THINKING in terms of writing screenplays.I learn from my peers.I get ideas and I get motivated. Which is what I'm attempting to do with this post: get back in the game.

If I publish a post tomorrow, I've succeeded.
Stay tuned and find out.