Big Break! 2005 - Not this year...

So, the result for Final Draft Big Break! 2005 is in. So I eagerly skimmed through the page to find my name. Surely. There must be.

Not. Big Bummer. sigh

I figured I would at least make a semi-finalist list, but my script didn't rise above the cream and the crop--is that how it goes? They sent me a simple email to thank me for entering the contest--they should after taking my hard earned $50 for the entry fee. I'm just bummed out for the rest of the day, thinking I still got a long way to go, perfecting my writing, my narrative skills, etc.

I'm still working on the short scripts, but I got to kick them out so that I can earnestly start writing either Trigger Digits or Belfast Safa to enter for the next year's script competitions. I will budget plenty of time to polish them up and get them out before cheaper, early-bird entry deadlines.

I won't be the greatest writer ever, but I'm trying to become the greatest film director ever. Every great director is/was a writer, therefore, in the grand scheme of things, I need to write well, but I need to direct and tell visual stories. It's disappointing that I didn't make the cut, but it's more imperative for me to make a short to pronounce my presence in the visual narrative world, and prove to myself and to the people that I can direct and tell great visual narratives.

Regardless, anyhow, today, I decided to write at least 1,000 feature scripts in my life time--3 down, 997 to go. If I can make 10 of them into films, I could consider my life to be an enormous success. Besides rearing 3 beautiful daughters, that is. :-)