Events & Movies That Made Me Rethink A Career In Writing.

Well, Now that we are fast approaching the end of the of the first decade of the new millennium, it seems everyone and their grandmother has a blog, website & on Youtube. Some of these site are a diving board for a career. So I'm jumping on board to see if I can land in the pool.

Also recently in my downtime I saw 3 movies that made me think why I can and should start writing again. I will list them and give a brief summary as to what the inspiration was:

1. Into the Wild:

I really connected to the plot. Here was a young man who went through life and did what was expected and told to do. After he graduated college, he decided to detour and not take the next logical step. He threw away all personal belonging and connection to his affluent life and hitchhike across the country to Alaska. It just seemed to correlate with what I was going through at the time as I mentioned in my previous post.

2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall:

OK, yeah I know it's a comedy for the school of Judd Apatow. And es my main reason for seeing it at first was for "The Scene" of star Jason Segal being dumped by his girlfriend while buck naked (so now you know I like guys that look like guys and not twinks or muscle jocks). Then when I was read review and article about the movie and how Segal told this was a true story and how he could not wait for the girlfriend to leave so he could write the experience down due to the humor of the situation. I thought to myself, "Damn Kev, How many times have you had a negative experience and took yourself out to the situation and thought what a riot it would be if it was happening to someone else."

3. Juno:

While I liked the movie, I did not love it like most people did. Plus, I want to see what else Ellen Page can do, because it seems from her public appearance she is not much unlike the character. Sorta like Liza in Cabaret. But the inspiration came knowing the screenwriter Diablo Cody, who know has an Oscar on her mantle, used to be employed as a exotic dancer. Again, i thought to myself. "Shit, you can do this too."