Started on a new show recently. This one not as a writer, but in my old position as a script coordinator. Don’t get me wrong, I’m psyched to be there. Great people, a stellar small staff of writers and for the first time, work on an hour long which is where my passion now lies. It’s not that I don’t like writing comedy anymore. Heck, if someone offered me a gig on a comedy right now I’d take it. Plain and simple, I just love to write. But the shows I watch most are hourlongs and the scripts I’ve been writing over the last year are hours or features. So that’s where my writing is and why I’m happy to be where I am, even with the long drive.
But the long drive is peaceful, thinking time on the road. The last year and a half has put things in perspective and for the first time in many months, I’m seeing taking a step back in a different way. Because I’ve taken a step back, I now can see where I was and how great it was. The taking for granted is gone and the dream has been reborn. Not a bad place to be.
