What have I been up to you might ask? (Pause) Go ahead ... ask!! (Pause) Thanks for asking. You're so kind. (Blush) Okay. What have I been doing with myself since we last chatted on the world wide web. NOTHING!! Not a damn thing! We'll that is not completely true. Since May I attended the PEI Screenwriter's Boot Camp where I developed and refined my pitch for a TV series based on this blog. http://www.peiscreenwritersbootcamp.net/home
By the way. Thanks to the wonderful organizer Louise Lalonde, my team's workshop guru Hanna Cheesman AND my good friend and producer, Donna Davies. Without Donna's encouragement I would not have gone to the event and realized that I still had something to say. It was also the beginning of my very slow emergence from a self imposed exile. After that was the summer, which meant a week in PEI with some of my favorite campers/friends and in September, the trip of a life time for my wife and I. We went to Europe on an 11 day cruise through Italy, Greece and eastern Europe. Fantastic!
So, why was I in exile you ask? Again ... thanks for your concern. It really means a lot to me. But let me answer. Basically I was stuck. The fog and heaviness of depression, anxiety and ADHD took a large toll on me over the last year. I was not only stuck creatively, I was also frozen in a job I knew did nothing to nurture my creativity. So I left. September 2, 2016 was my last day at the call center and I do not regret it one bit. I had committed six years to trying to make myself fit into that world and try as I might it just did not happen. I needed to push myself away from that atmosphere and get my creative soul back.
Now, it has not been like riding a bike. Over the last few weeks I have fallen a number of times and some of the scabs are still healing but I am getting right back on and will continue to get back on until I find what I am looking for. As always I must thank and be forever grateful to my wife and partner. She has endured so much and while a bike for two is tough to ride we continue to work towards mastering it.
So, not exiled anymore. Good. Being out of work. Not great but better than being where I don't belong. Trying to find myself again ... always a good thing. And hey... if you know a good place where I might fit in let me know. I'm ready to go.
