Hey that title could be a name for a dimensional hopping role-playing game! But that's not what I'm here to consider.
I watched A New Hope again for the first time in a long time and I still love it! Combine that with watching the new Star Trek some 2 and a half times the previous week and my latent excitement and enthusiasm for science fiction movies has been seriously rekindled.
I do have a dream of a fantastic universe or mythology that has room to shine in film and novels and RPGs and computer games... An ever growing realm of adventure and danger, challenge and darkness and an overarching feeling of hope...
I think I pull myself back from the brink every time I consider that leap. It seems impossible. Or at the very least so dependent on the reactions of others that there's no way I should pin my hopes and dreams and livelihood on something like that.
Not to mention that whenever you start talking of grand plans like that, people always want to helpfully bring you back to reality and remind you that most people don't succeed in such lines of work and you should have a backup plan and oh, maybe you should just spend all your time on your backup plan because that's really how you're going to put food on the table...
But I know successful full-time authors who've done it. Well, part of it at least.
Maybe I'm scared of being consumed by it. Or scared of losing creative control to publishers or producers.
But, then fear is no good basis for decision making.
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Darn you. Every time you say stuff like that, the English major in me starts to agree that having a back up plan is necessary, then I agree again that why should you focus on a back up plan if it's not what you want to do? Then I get all nervous cause who wants to read stuff by me? I'm just some shmo. Then my head gets so full of conflict that I just ignore the issue again. Bah. If I put off the choice long enough, it will just go away, right?
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