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that's what acting isI was talking with a friend last night, who is a fantastically talented and successful actor. We are both in our 40s, and we can’t seem to get our careers — which were once exploding with work — back where we want them. We’re both having the same frustrations and hitting the same closed doors, even though he is way way way more successful than I am. During our conversation, I said, “I’ve been doing all this stuff for the last few years that is mostly transactional, or informational, instead of creative and artistic. I’ve had some great acting jobs, but none of them have translated into other acting opportunities.

“I love the stuff I’ve done online, and I’m super proud of Tabletop, but it isn’t artistically fulfilling. It isn’t creative like acting and writing is.”

He mentioned some big pictures that he had auditions for recently, and asked me if I’d read for them.

“Nope,” I said. “I couldn’t even get an audition. It’s really frustrating, and if I’m being honest, it’s depressing as fuck.”

We talked about creating projects that we can act in, and I had this epiphany. “I love acting, and I want to continue to be an on-camera actor, even if it’s just one last great job … but my heart is in writing, because I don’t have to ask anyone for permission to be a writer.”

I go back and forth between giving up entirely on having on-camera work, and focusing on writing and voice acting, and working as hard as I can to get back in front of the camera. or just isn’t interested in me, but I keep looking at people who did good work, seemed to disappear for awhile, and then came back to do even more good work. Somehow, I just have to convince the people who can give me permission to work in their movies to give me a chance.

But until that happens, I can keep writing, because nobody can tell me that I can’t do it.

I’m writing every day. I’ve pulled about 4000 words out of my brains this week, split between two different stories. They’ll both go into the short story collection that I’m writing, to be published later this year, and I don’t have to struggle to get permission to do that.

…I really want to do more on-camera acting work, though. I miss it. I wish there was some way to convince Hollywood to give me a chance, because everything I’ve been doing the last several years just isn’t working.

 

 

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67 thoughts on “here I dreamt I was an architect”

  1. Jason Kostempski says:
    8 August, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    You could act something you write, then you won’t have to ask permission to act either.

  2. Colin W MacDiarmid says:
    9 August, 2016 at 6:28 am

    we live this close to death

  3. Nena Fisher says:
    12 August, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    Very interesting, I wonder if that’s how David Duchavney feels cuz he has written a couple books now.

  4. james r granade jr says:
    13 August, 2016 at 4:06 pm

    tryed to donate but couldnt it kept saying already a member. hi

  5. Bob Snider says:
    14 August, 2016 at 5:52 am

    We are buying 4 times as much from the Chinese as they buy from us. Chances are that your family hasn’t bought much of real value that was made in the USA. So why are you going to be surprised when one fine day you will go to the store and find it empty? the NWO are in this country and ready to use Martial Law to take it over and only the 12-19 year olds will survive the gas ovens of FEMA because they are “educable” to slavery. Sorry about that. Bet when the SHTF you will pray for the NRA to save you and your family. If you are educable, check out the Repair Party at repairparty.org and you may live thru the next few years. Good luck.

  6. Craig R says:
    5 September, 2016 at 5:17 pm

    Wil
    I saw you on Dark Matter the other day! Loved the villain you play! It brought me to your blog actually as I thought “holy shit! It’s Wil Wheaton!”.
    Good to see you back on sceen.

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