I meet a lot of writers who are going to start writing their screenplay on one kind of day.

“Someday.”

They can’t do it now because they have young kids or aging parents or a demanding job or no quiet place to write, or no idea that feels good enough, or too many ideas that all seem good.

For those, I offer for your consideration the story of Georgina Carpisto-Gajdosik…wife, mother, and resident of Connecticut (oops, I turned into Rod Serling for a moment there). Anyway, as related in the Northaven Patch, she worked at a marketing company but wanted more creative satisfaction. With her husbad’s support she quit her job and decided to get involved with filmmaking–somehow.

One day she read in a newspaper about a local filmmaker and became his locations manager. In the process she decided she wanted to write screenplays. She read hundreds of screenplays and how-to books, mostly while her daughter napped.

Eventually she wrote a short film and shot it over six days in Scotland. It has screened in a bunch of festivals including, recently, the New York City Indie Film Festival.

She has written more screenplays including one that is getting good feedback. No deal yet, but it looks promising.

In the absence of a big deal, why am I using her as an example of success? Because to me success is doing what you love and figuring out ways forward when all the indicators are that you’re a bit crazy to even try.

Yes, she does have a supportive husband who made it possible for her to give up her job, but I have a feeling that even without that she would have found a way to discover and pursue her passion.

I’m not sure whether the day she started was a Monday, a Tuesday, a Wednesday, a Thursday, a Friday, a Saturday or  a Sunday.

But it wasn’t a “someday.”

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