I've been writing for the screen since 1999. I moved from Seattle to Hollywood in November of 2004. Three of my five screenplays are making the rounds.
My latest comedy, FALSE SECURITY, took 2nd place in the WriteSafe.com contest for the third quarter of 2005.
I wrote, produced, and directed a short film titled, Memoir.
I gained representation as a screenwriter in 2006.

The cinemarati will know I've slightly mangled Colonel Kurtz's advice to Captain Willard about befriending horror in a horror-filled place. Perhaps better advice to Willard might have been: "You're up to your ass in alligators. Regardless of what you think about alligators--good, bad, or indifferent--there they are. You don't have to like large carnivorous reptiles, but since you're surrounded by them I suggest you make nice."

Good advice for Hollywood dwellers too and I offer it here just in case the seminars don't cover it.

I understand better now the difference between waiting and being expectant. Being expectant is far more proactive than merely waiting. Entering a state of expectancy is often the final stage of waiting: You wait in the proverbial waiting room, but once you're escorted to the exam room you tend to expect the metaphorical doctor to arrive at any moment--yes, that's often wrong, but we do it by reflex. Waiting is usually imposed on us by people and circumstances despite our best efforts but we willingly become expectant with little or no prodding.

I'm aware of the common advice about waiting: Stay busy!

Staying busy helps: If your mental bandwidth is utterly consumed by various tasks you don't have the capacity to indulge in waiting. But since it's nearly impossible to consume all of one's mental bandwidth for any length of time we will tend to wait even while staying busy.

Kipling mentions waiting in his poem, If:
"If you can wait and not be tired by waiting..."

That's a huge "if," an epic "if," an "if" of alligators.

And so I tiredly wait. I wait while staying as busy as I can tolerate being. I wait while hoping for a reason to be expectant. It sucks.

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