I'd just posted a thread on "who else stresses during the waiting process?"
I loved your comments and encouragements, and sympathies, and even the "Get over it" comments, but as I was getting ready to address them all, I realized so much has happened since last night that I figure I'll start my answers on a new thread.
I've been asked to not discuss certain details until contracts are signed. But an executive movie producer loves my story and thinks it will make a great movie - series. They asked if I'd be willing to change one character's name, which I said I am, and there are a few grammar errors, but the story is there, and they want it.
There was also a publishing deal on the table at the same time. So it looks like my first book will be pulished this coming summer.
I can't tell you what a relief this is. The longer it's taken, the more I've felt everyone would see me as John Nash (A beautiful Mind) with a garage filled with strings and note papers. - He thinks he's an author!- Poor guy lost his mind.
I couldn't tell if we talked for an half hour or 2 hours. I was simply floating. And my wife was giving me the thumbs up sign from across the room.
Well, I'm actually smiling and happy!
In regards to your comments, I can't explain insecurities and why I would get frustrated with rejections, or worry over them. I think part of it was that for a long time, whenever I put my stories aside and came back to them, there were major flaws, and my heart would sink. And I had this feeling like, "Am I ever going to get this right?"
We may be authors, at whatever phase of the process, but we're never exempt from being human, with all the quirks.
Nate
I was so bold as to tell some of the people I wanted to play certain parts, and mentioned Clive Owen, Jeremy Irons, and Viggo Mortenson (who wouldn't appear until the second movie). And I said, "That is if we can get Viggo..."
They know Viggo from having worked with him before and said that was a possibility. But all in all it was a rather heady conversation about web pages and illustrations...
I'm like, "Well, can I take out your garbage or do your dishes or something in repayment..."
I loved your comments and encouragements, and sympathies, and even the "Get over it" comments, but as I was getting ready to address them all, I realized so much has happened since last night that I figure I'll start my answers on a new thread.
I've been asked to not discuss certain details until contracts are signed. But an executive movie producer loves my story and thinks it will make a great movie - series. They asked if I'd be willing to change one character's name, which I said I am, and there are a few grammar errors, but the story is there, and they want it.
There was also a publishing deal on the table at the same time. So it looks like my first book will be pulished this coming summer.
I can't tell you what a relief this is. The longer it's taken, the more I've felt everyone would see me as John Nash (A beautiful Mind) with a garage filled with strings and note papers. - He thinks he's an author!- Poor guy lost his mind.
I couldn't tell if we talked for an half hour or 2 hours. I was simply floating. And my wife was giving me the thumbs up sign from across the room.
Well, I'm actually smiling and happy!
In regards to your comments, I can't explain insecurities and why I would get frustrated with rejections, or worry over them. I think part of it was that for a long time, whenever I put my stories aside and came back to them, there were major flaws, and my heart would sink. And I had this feeling like, "Am I ever going to get this right?"
We may be authors, at whatever phase of the process, but we're never exempt from being human, with all the quirks.
Nate
I was so bold as to tell some of the people I wanted to play certain parts, and mentioned Clive Owen, Jeremy Irons, and Viggo Mortenson (who wouldn't appear until the second movie). And I said, "That is if we can get Viggo..."
They know Viggo from having worked with him before and said that was a possibility. But all in all it was a rather heady conversation about web pages and illustrations...
I'm like, "Well, can I take out your garbage or do your dishes or something in repayment..."
