Where to Go, What to Do... (Part 1)

I'm really confused about what to do with my life in the next 5 years. For starters, I would like to leave L.A. I talked my wife into moving down here from the San Francisco Bay Area almost 3 years ago because at the time I dreamt of becoming a Great American Screenwriter and was convinced that by being down here it would facilitate my making contacts in The Industry and consequently selling a script for many many dollars.

Over the past 2 years I've lost interest in screenwriting and Hollywood in general. No, I didn't get burned by an agent or plagiarized by some established show. In fact, I barely tried to market myself. I started a screenwriting group, met some nice people who all aspired to the same goal I did, and after a year found myself feeling completely disenchanted with the whole process. Why was I spending 2 hours every other Tuesday evening trying to make my scripts PERFECT when so much IMperfect stuff (okay, pure crap) was getting bought and made into movies? I turned the helm of my screenwriting group over to another writer and dropped out.

I would still like to write, however. I have been farting around with one of my scripts with the notion of turning it into a novel. Maybe it'll be Book One of a Trilogy. Hey, there's an original idea. Stay tuned.