My Screenplay won!!!! Allow me to explain. In July, Carrie and other friends of ours did this crazy thing called Script Frenzy. We each wrote our own feature length screenplay in 30 days. I loved it, so I decided to keep doing it. Well, in August another friend and I decided to enter the Screenwriters Challenge, a pretty big deal contest in which you are given a genre and topic and have one week to write a short. I paid my money, and plunged in. I just got the results today, and I won 4th place in my heat. This is a big deal to me! Many, many writers spend a long time trying to get screenplays read and many enter these things multiple times and never see any results. I won on the first try.
The reason I am writing about this (besides obviously the bragging), is that THIS is why I am working at Starbucks. To have time to discover these things about myself. I had been sort of thinking about going to film school and, honestly, this is a huge push in that direction. I probably never would have discovered this talent had I not given myself the freedom to take chances. Also screenprint. I gave that a shot and loved it. Now I have folks (ok 2 people) commissioning me to make T's and paying me to do it! That is worth the struggle and poverty. Some people think I was/am stupid to work this job, and try these things. To them I say..."I won a contest, Bitch!". J/K. But it is nice to have the time and energy to explore my interests and talents. I know so many people who have not done this, and wih that they had. Not for me, suckers. I may be poor, but I am happy!

btw-you will be able to see it on Monday at www.nycmidnight.com listed as a winner in heat 30. You can't read the whole thing, but it will show the logline.