I Find Out Tomorrow...

I just got my first issue of my re-subsription to WD. I'm so excited. I look forward to turning each page while sitting at McDonald's sipping coffee despite my mild allergic reaction to caffeine. Ahh, paradise. I get so inspired and just all, "I want to do it and I want to do it now!"

There is a frustration though. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am once again torn between the potential of being the Artistic Director for CYT Spokane (what I perceive to be a very important position) and being a full time writer.

The decision will slip further away from my hands tomorrow night when the CYT Spokane Board makes its decision about who will be the next Executive Artist Director

I was excited last night as I helped out at their $65 a head fundraiser dinner. I was emceeing for the improv kids. They were wonderful and in top form. This reflected well on me as I led them and it also gave me a chance to schmooze a little more with a few of the board members.

One of the parents pulled me aside and pointed out what an asset I am to CYT whether or not I get the job. I was blessed.

The Next Step

Well, I finished my correspondence course with The Christian Writer's Guild. I want to take the next course of The Journeyman level. Time is the key thing though. I need to get a full time job and I'm being considered for a position as the Executive Artistic Director of CYT Spokane. I'm excited about it. I've it through two interviews and I have a third round tonight. I am still pursuing my passion through the arts. I'm teaching a sketch comedy writing class and if I am hired as the director I will have a quarterly publication to write and edit...The CYT Times. Unfortunately, I fear that it will interfere with other writing of dramas and other fiction. I trust that this is God's leading and his opening of a door. I will walk through it as far as he will allow.

A Professional Writer In Japan or America?

I wrote a play for a church in Japan. They wanted to do it this Christmas originally but they realized they just didn't have the administrative ability to pull it off. I was disappointed. I spent a few months writing the thing. It's the first full length three act play that I have ever written. There may be a way to see it through if I am willing to stay in Japan for another four months past our intended stay. The rest of my family would go back to the States in August and I would join them to help them transition but I would come back and direct the play that would go up at Christmas time.


It's daunting for me. I can't get a commitment out of the pastor. I do desire to get the story of The Nativity in front of a Japanese audience. All they seem to get is Ho! Ho! Ho! commercialism without the hope of the Christ child. I share that vision with the pastors, but I am also now called upon to stir up the troops and get them (the Japanese Christians) excited about supporting such a project.

I know that it won't pay money, but that's not the point. If I got it up on its feet I could get it published afterwards.

I'm praying about it. I think this will be an interesting experience. I've directed a few productions, but never in a foreign language.

The Journey Starts

I've decided to become a professional writer. That is scary. I will actually have to follow through on that commitment. I feel that I should document the journey though.

I've been making more and more investments lately so I 've decided that is what they are...investments in my career. Over the last year I've:

• Been taking a correspondence writing course
• Invested in writing software including Storymind and Movie Magic Screenwriter
• I subscribed to Writer's Market Online
• I have committed to going to the Writing for the Soul Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This is a big deal because I am currently living in Japan and the trip is going to cost me upwards of two thousand dollars!

I've actually been thinking about pursuing writing since I got married three years ago, but until these last few investments, I don't know if I really took it seriously. Now it is time to take it seriously. I have a family to provide for and I am sick of being a stay-at-home dad.