It feels empowering, and challenging, and what a thrill to be able to say, "yes, I made this."
Secondly, at minute 2:45, she says of skilled artists, "every moment of their hard work has lead up to this single moment of pleasure for us." This struck a cord, because that is exactly what an artist is, at least for me. It is hours of hand-painting a topiary so that you, the viewer, will see it for a few seconds in a film. Or scrubbing a kitchen floor three times, just so that it will gleam the way it would for the character.
It is a beautiful idea, this concept of building up beauty for the enjoyment of others. I hope as I continue on this journey, that I can continue to hold on to that ideal.
The idea seems to be that you must only write in one genre, whether it's comedy or drama or sci-fi or whatnot. People really believe that a screenwriter can only excel in one of these.
I disagree, and I'm so glad that Rosiefromthepast does, too. I don't want to be pigeonholed. I don't want to be confined to a certain style or type of writing. I want to write what I want to write, to write about whatever moves me or inspires me.
I have five very different feature-length screenplays, and I'm proud of them all. I have shorts, too, and short stories, and letters. And I write poetry. And, you probably noticed that...I blog!
So, thank you, Rosiefromthepast, for your clever, creative and articulate video. And take that, pigeons!