great piece as always! i particularly resonate with the section on Writing:
"I love to write. Every day, for hours a day. I’m not particularly fun..."
"Anything I write, I write with the intention of making it. It’s helped me finish 2024 with scripts I’m very proud of and projects where I can see the pathways to becoming very proud of them..."
"I’m the most confident I have ever been in the internal within my control — my ability to write and to create and to set the tone that I’d want set in a work environment. Yet I’m the least confident in the external — the status of the industry, the availability of resources, the entertainment influencer economy that runs on a wobbly stack of Jenga pieces to be knocked over in 0.5 seconds, and how to tread water through those crashing waves...."
"I’m glad to find joy in the writing. I hope you all have something or things within your internal control that brings you joy, that you can focus on, so you’re not waiting for the external to come save you. That said, please subscribe to my Paid Substack, or just like and share some posts, so more people can find my stuff."
DEAL!
also, i just listend to David Sedaris on Mike Birbiglia's "Working it Out" podcast, and Mike asked him this:
"before it was breakout success, were you, how did you feel? Did you feel hopeful about your literary prospects?"
and David responded:
"I never confused writing and publishing."
and i love that.
do what you can internally and then bring it the best you can to the external.
dear dan,
great piece as always! i particularly resonate with the section on Writing:
"I love to write. Every day, for hours a day. I’m not particularly fun..."
"Anything I write, I write with the intention of making it. It’s helped me finish 2024 with scripts I’m very proud of and projects where I can see the pathways to becoming very proud of them..."
"I’m the most confident I have ever been in the internal within my control — my ability to write and to create and to set the tone that I’d want set in a work environment. Yet I’m the least confident in the external — the status of the industry, the availability of resources, the entertainment influencer economy that runs on a wobbly stack of Jenga pieces to be knocked over in 0.5 seconds, and how to tread water through those crashing waves...."
"I’m glad to find joy in the writing. I hope you all have something or things within your internal control that brings you joy, that you can focus on, so you’re not waiting for the external to come save you. That said, please subscribe to my Paid Substack, or just like and share some posts, so more people can find my stuff."
DEAL!
also, i just listend to David Sedaris on Mike Birbiglia's "Working it Out" podcast, and Mike asked him this:
"before it was breakout success, were you, how did you feel? Did you feel hopeful about your literary prospects?"
and David responded:
"I never confused writing and publishing."
and i love that.
do what you can internally and then bring it the best you can to the external.
you're doing it. great work!
thanks for sharing!
love
myq
thanks so much, myq! i really appreciate that. hope to see you soon
Same, my friend!