Option A: Stay in my career and at my job. Option B: Stay in my career but move to a different place. Option C: Blow it all up and start a new path you really love. I like C.
Eight months has come and gone quickly. Tons of assignments. A lot of ideas fleshed out and put together. It has been scary, frustrating, exciting awesome and all together one Hell of a ride. By July I will have my Masters degree in Creative writing which means I have the skills to craft storylines for any medium, from TV and film to video games and graphic novels. That is pretty broad rang of things.
So now I get to answer the question, "where do I go from here"? I made a choice to pursue this degree last year and I told myself that "This degree isn't just sitting on the wall." I am going to use it to create stories and see them performed. Over the last couple weeks I have envisioned my life from here on out. There isn't a nice office waiting for me now. I will have the degree but not a name in the industry yet. In truth my office will be where I can set up my laptop and get Wi-Fi most days.
There is a strong pull inside me to start my own production company. To carve out my own niche. I know it'll be hard. I know there will be rough patches. I know I may want to quit some times but there has been no move in my life that I have felt so strongly. I feel alive when I write. When I put my head phones on and just type, the world slows down and it's just me and the page.
So what do I name my company? I really haven't decided. My ideas cut across a wide spectrum of genres and mediums. That answer will come to me sometime soon. I talked to my career advisers and told them I am looking to partner with other alumni on projects and they were really positive that I should do it.
