Roadmapping a Dream

I'm onto something. It came to me in bits and pieces whilst trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. Yes, that is quite a lofty task, but I have to be practical too right, those student loans won't pay themselves. So while I searched CraigsList, the government job boards, and various other places. I truly had to come to grips with what makes me happy, books and film. Yes, I've already worked in publishing as a publicist and that didn't really work out for me so well, at least from the standpoint of my mental sanity. So then what? I want to be in the thick of things, in the middle, the book and the movie, so now I'm thinking acquisitions and/or selling book rights.

The challenge now is to get there. To that end, I'm taking a page(s) from themost recent edition of What Color is Your Parachute?: Hard Times edition. Narrowing my focus and letting people know what I'm looking for and then finding people whom I can talk to in that industry. Meaning I have to get to networking. Yep, the n-word, it's not something that comes naturally to me, but I know that it's necessary. I need to figure out a way to do it and be able to establish a genuine rapport. Are there lessons on this? Also, I need to follow through more, I always have grand plans and have a short attention span when enacting them, as evidenced by me only losing 13 pounds since June (that's a subject for another post).

So I need to tell people, I need to be held accountable.