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[AugustWest]

Dude, I think what you're suffering from is called "The Human Condition". 

[wombat]

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But what I feel is my potential... I haven't gotten there yet. It hasn't happened yet.

Well, as I think I have mentioned before... you can be a writer any time - it's not like you wanted to be an Olympic figure skater and now it's too late.  Maybe what you're meant to do is not doable until you have done some more living. You seem to have big ideas, so maybe they need more time to come to ripeness. Maybe there's no way to get there any faster than it's already happening.

But whatever it is that you're meant to do I'm pretty sure it's not being crucified to save the human race, so, dude, give up the unreasonable comparisons.

[littlefallsmets]

I'm tryin', womb@, I'm tryin'.

28 is right around when Mark Twain started gettin' his shit together, as far as my research shows. I figure Mark Twain is still an unhealthy standard to hold oneself up again but not a completely insane standard...

[KeithHernandez]

That is like saying Bob Dylan (lets not get into the hate) recorded two classic records by the time he was my age, so there is no hope.  Even he couldn't save the world though.

[littlefallsmets]

Even he couldn't save the world though.

Well, "finding Jesus" and cutting a country album so as to avoid political involvement when the actual trouble was going down definitely helps in the not-saving-the-world-thing.

In the story I'm working on, after the neocons take the country by shattering it to bits, the biggest music act in the land is Country Bob Zimmerman and His Barnhouse Ramblers. The second biggest act is his son's band, Jake Zimmerman and the Wallflowers. They've turned Bowie's song "heroes" into an army recruitment video.

I'm... I'm kind of cracked in the head, you understand.

[AlohaDawg]

I personally enjoy reading scripts, but it's very very different than reading something in narrative form. Probably because I've done a ton of plays and musicals and junk in a different life - I like picturing the play going on in my head as I read; it's very different than the experience I get reading. I guess when reading, mentally I 'get' the story but I don't picture it nearly the same was as I do reading a script. Maybe Mel has a way of putting this into words better.