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Topic: Working with Deadlines
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| ipub | Posted – 12/20/2007 10:57:37 PM | show profile | email poster Hello all, I stumbled upon Mediabistro.com. Finding Mediabistro was apropos for me. I was both exhilirated and challenged to sorrow at the changes that had come over me since my two recent job opportunities. One was so demanding , while the other was requiring so much patience of me. The first one I could write at and excel to my hearts content, while the second gave me the feeling of going uphill with my breaks on. Luckily, the second has had some glimmers of hope shining. The first I was at time wanting to set myself free from forward-drive. I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A BREAK AND BREATHE. Can I assume all of you can recall the experience of being called to meet a deadline and you just didn't know how it was going to happen; deep down you understood that it had to! I'm at a lull now. I've been writing less and thinking more about what the future holds. I'd accumulated strong hope that this would be a way to break from my "day job." I know the people I work with in my "day job" think he's "somewhere else," at times. I hope that will take place soon. I sense deep enthusiasm for the future. The two online groups I work for now are fair to say the best opportunities I've had to write, and their is decent pay involved. Still I consider that after you know you are getting paid, there is something else that drives me to write. It reminds me of what Julia Cameron said in "The Vein of Gold," that you have to write till that part of you comes out and perseveres in the process. The desire to write is beyond the words you place on the paper. I wonder if other writers have that experience? I wonder why writers write to write; and why they keep that desire to write as their tool to be creative. I'm thankful to have these opportunities, since they make me feel closer to my truest identity. I remember when I was 4-5 years old and playing reporter with my first recorder. It is just part of who I am. A Writer! I've always wanted to express myself in writing. As I mentioned others challenge me. When I was in Los Angeles at USC program writing for film and TV, Leonard Roseman as well as the late Elmer Bernstein, mentioned that art was created by this hidden enthusiasm of the artist. I could hear what they were teaching in every note they wrote. This is what happens when art and the subject become one. Beethoven, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emmanuel Levinas, Isaiah, Abraham Lincoln. At that point writing becomes a Voice. It is a great privilege to be given the opportunity to write for others. Cheers, |
