Lifting the Writers Block

Okay I been writing all day and have gotten a lot of Unspoken Words (my next feature) written. I think I will have a full rough draft by the end of the week. I'm still at work at Sandy Springs Middle School ready to go. Today I found out about a Writers fellowship with Nickoloden. Basically you send them a script and they pick three people to hire onto their writing staff for a full year. I think it would be a great experience. The only problem is that the deadline was back in Feb. So Ill have to wait until next year. However Nick has a workshop this summer at the ABFF that you have to write a spec for. I'm trying hard to figure out what show I'm going to write the spec for. It has to be a sitcom that is currently being produced on TV now. I was thinking Everybody Hates Chris but that got canceled so I gotta pick something else. I've been writing on Unspoken Words all day but the second I try to think about my spec I lose my brain. Hopefully tomorrow Ill be able to start its due on Thursday or Friday of this week so I don't have long. I been writing for forever. I wrote the first feature I did Five days in the A in high school senior year. See when I have writers block I don't force it out I just wait. I just wrote 45 pages of Unspoken Words easily. But I just want to update you guys a but I need to go these bad ass middle school kids are in here acting like animals and I need to regulate. See ya later .

The Empty Place After Success but Before Victroy

I got off work today (substitute teacher) to come home to my girl suffering a crazy allergic reaction. So I rushed her to Northside Hospital down the street from the house. After some shots I found myself in lala land as I watched her peacefully sleep. I started to think about life. My life, my future. For those that don't know me I'm a film director. Noticed I didn't say aspiring. I have directed over 40 music videos, and two feature films, and a short. I got more projects down the pipeline than I can count. But its weird cause I'm in this empty place. Not sure what to call it. But I'm not rich at all. I work as a substitute teacher by day. Making a whopping 84 dollars a day. I bartender/bar back at a club on Fridays, and I work at a restaurant a couple nights a week. No I don't need all these jobs but I'mma hustler. I'm trying to pay for these never ending festival fees. As well as fund my next view projects. I have two films in the festival circuit right now. Five Days in the A which is a feature film (I'll discuss this in a later blog) which is on DVD right now @ fivedaysintheathemovie.com You should order your copy. The other film is Sounds of Poetry starring the lovely Robin Givens. I won best director in the San Diego Black Film Festival and was nominated for best director in the Texas Black Film Festival. Both films were nominated for best picture. So im happy on that side. But it seems that I find myself in the empty place. I have passed Success but I have not reached the victory. The victory of living my dream every day. Now dont get me wrong I thank God everyday for everything that I have accomplished. But you see Im ready, im waiting, im anxious. Im ready to feed the world with the stories and visuals which lie within my head. I feel like pacing back and forth in a dark room. Waiting for the light to shine and for me to be let out. Let out to shine. I just don't want to make it for myself, but for the others around me. I have a wonderful team of people that have my back and support me no matter what. I want us all to be able to sit on the roof somewhere and have a dinner as the sun sets. That would be perfect so perfect. But for now I lye between, in this empty space. Waiting and waiting. What is it that I'm suppose to be doing. What's next. Only God knows but for now I will just keep paying for these festivals, prepare for Zo Brothers, and finish writing Unspoken Words. Until next time I'll see yall later.