I wonder if any of you have experienced the re-awakening of creative spirit that I have just recently? Here is my tale...
I have a degree in theater. A degree from a school that no longer has a theater department, thus rendering my degree virtually worthless. An undergraduate degree in theater means exactly bupkes unless you use it as a springboard into a MFA or similar. I also didn't subscribe to the whole "starving artist-cum-waitress" ideal. What that boiled down to was leaving my beloved theater to pursue more lofty (not to mention lucrative) goals. I got a job.
Fast forward 15 years...
Here lies Stacy...an out-of-work marketing and recruitment manager that finds herself searching for jobs in a market that does not look kindly on her.
Poor me...boo hoo...blah blah blah.
So I decided to siphon and supplement the creative juices that seemed to reduce down to a basic rue years ago.
Project 1:
For years, I have wanted to write a book. I have long been an enthusiast of paranormal (read: VAMPIRE) novels. I digest them like oatmeal. I also felt that there were many published authors out there that were not much different than me. Down I sat in front of the Word page, blank and mocking. But I was prepared! I had a theme and a general storyboard in mind!
Cut to Stacy, STILL sitting at her keyboard several hours later, unable to string ideas together in the fictional space-time continuum. Only 15 pages had been written.
Cut to Stacy several weeks later, still not able to write it.
How did I spend the time you may ask?
Productive right?
No kids (we used to be DINKS but now I guess we are SINKS) so who else do I have the time and audacious gall to lavish my expensive video equipment on? They are SOOOOO SWEEET though. And they make a KILLER stew if they step out of line...KIDDING! Just KIDDING!
Great....so NOW what do I do?
Stay tuned...
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