Your Own Room
April 2017. This was the month my daughter turned 21. It was also the month that I uprooted my life to move to Hollywood, and ended up renting an apartment with JTM - The Crafter - to complete a play I had started in New Orleans a couple of weeks earlier, where I hunkered down for three weeks of intense location scouting and research. Oh, and I was also accepted into the Cambridge Writer's Workshop so there's that. It's now February 2018. Ten months later, and I've completed the play, a feature script and an outline for a romantic comedy. I've also fleshed out the idea for updating a classic noir film - and finished a big chunk of the research to go along with it. I'm excited, and most importantly, content. This is the life that I've actively charged into. Willfully. Consciously. With intent. I've had so many ideas cooking in my head for years I was afraid they'd disappear. I have random notebooks and half-finished stories lying around everywh