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it's some times a mystery to me why you don't hear about "tortured artists" as much you hear about "starving artists." i've been a tortured artist my entire life, but not once have i been a starving artist. honestly people, do i look like someone who has a hard time finding food?
"so what is a tortured artist" you ask?
someone who has so many ideas, they are pulled in a thousand different directions as they try to realize and pursue each one. let me let you in, for just a peak.
Alcoln and i are currently working on a graphic novel. we've just come up with a title for it, but i don't want to give away too much. i wrote it and he's drawing it. the following picture is a preliminary sketch of one of our main characters:
so i'm working on that. as i was writing that, i said to myself, "you know, this graphic novel is going to take at least a year to complete, maybe even longer to get it published. i need some kind of income (outside of the Olive Garden) between now and then. what would be something easy to write that i could publish and get my name out there with?
so i wrote this story. it's a memoir, actually. a memoir of what it was like to be a ten year-old living on an Air Force Base during the Persian Gulf War. i'm currently on my second draft of that.
while i was writing that, my friend Loren approached me about a series of short films. ten of them. i've created the outline for seven of them and am currently working on the other three outlines and trying to flesh out the outlines i have into full scripts.
as i worked on that, i was reminded of my play "Nighthawks," which i think still has a very large market of people who haven't been able to see it. so i returned to the script, re-read it, and am now currently working on a new outline for a "Nighthawks" film.
as i worked on "Nighthawks," i began to wonder about some of the other projects from my past that might be able to make the transition from stage to film and i remembered a film script i wrote called "Happy Valley." it could be years before this film is made, so why not in the meantime turn it into a book? that's the project i'm putting most of my time into right now (besides this blog).
then, on top of all that, there's another project. a super-secret project that i think could be really, really, big. but it's not anything i want to give away. i know, i know, there's like three people reading this blog (but you never know). but i'm so excited, i have to leave you with something, so i'll give you this, a collage of some of the inspirations behind the project:
the little, tiny choleric in me commit hari kari a looong time ago, but that doesn't stop me from just mentally shutting down sometimes. the scary thing is, no matter what i'm doing, i will put serious brain time into each of these projects each and every day.
so. screw the starving artists. how 'bout them tortured artists?