I've been a writer for all my adult life and has won my life as a, first to New York and then to Hollywood. Unfortunately that the world has undergone radical changes, and, with hundreds of ancient authors, have felt the impact. Many nights over the past two years have been spent to reflect on the way to continue to write and find an audience for the novels. When a former student suggested a trader, as it did with his book recently published short stories, I dithered. Finally I have died, although I had no idea that this decision would result. I jumped off the coast of the cliff readily and completely blind. Nothing I've ever done was also difficult, scary or difficult. And nothing made me feel more alive.
But let me return path. When my first husband was hired at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, I, of course, is y with him, although I had no idea what would make the move to my career in New York. Having had a love affair with film since I had seen "Seven Brides for seven Brothers" as a kid, I have the thing for me was to try my hand at writing a screenplay. I took the five of them from the UCLA Library and tried my first passage to a scenario with a novel that I loved by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer.
Then, I had a fully experience Hollywood. My husband and I went to a party given by someone else who worked in the scroll. I met it y editor in the history of the family of the hills. Although I do reveal it, which was one of the two shows, I watched on television. Instead I talked about my new agent, the scenario, I wrote to get even - all true; It could be verified; In addition, I am congenital honest - and told him how much I loved his show. She suggested that I call if I had ideas for it. Come with five, the first middle of the night, when I sat in bed on Grandpa Walton thinking, and how the family may respond to heart attack I found would cause on him.
This woman write me my first script, hired to send me home from the Burbank Studio with five treatments and scripts that had been written by her husband. Thus began my career in Hollywood. I've written many scripts and taught screenwriting at UCLA and USC. Overall, I have a creative and satisfying lives. No me prepare to take on the world of technology, web sites, Facebook and other social media networks.
Because the friends and colleagues were urging me to extend the life of my work, I asked myself, "can learn this stuff as a disaster."
I chose the marketing woman, a former student suggested, which informed me I needed a new website, which was interactive. I had no idea what this would mean, or how I should do to produce. In my small town, nobody knew how to create a website using WordPress. Someone has managed to set up a site, but he did not work correctly. In the meantime, I had learned how to add text to each tab, different if it was a "page" tab or a "post" tab, drop and drag an image, a video, a URL. Get a headache? As do I.
Three months have passed. My head is still. I took notes on what I learned, that much is going to change now as the Web site is reworked by someone who understands how create an interactive site and actual work, marketing, has not yet started. To do this, I learn how to use a new Facebook business page, how tweet, make a presentation power point, so I can talk to women's groups, my last project and on and on.
Why should I continue? You may be too old for this, you may be thinking!
My answer, after the great soul search: because I am not dead. I am in good health, active and very well here. I like to write. I want to work with women, to write about the experiences of my friends and my experiences. It seems if I will continue my creative life, I am going to learn all this tech stuff that feels completely foreign to me, unpleasant tech who are difficult and painful, challenging and, facing it, skills. My girls tell me that Facebook will be fun. They are often right. The Distributor assures me that once I learn all that I have to learn, it will be easy. It reminds me how much I have already learned. And I learned many things. I exercised my brain. I feel more alive, then when I started. And I hate to give up.
Here are therefore I am every day asking me to leave. If you are frustrated by this new technology, and world of social media that I find someone who can help you learn about it. Do a few hours a day, six or seven as I have. It is perhaps good, simply because it is new, because it connects you with your children, or merely because it challenges your brain cells... Trust me: you will feel proud that you conquered this new world and can be a part of it. Perhaps something that you learn, even easy my life.
Author: Nancy Alvarez
Nancy began writing at Sarah Lawrence College and then to write articles for the magazine as diverse as the New York Times and cosmopolitan (as Nancy Greenwald). She has written for the family of the hills, as well as writing the Telefilm "Sharon: Portrait of a master." She wrote a memory/workbook several years entitled "Little Nancy: The Journey Home" and workshops with the book/workbook combination around the country, as well as retreats to Port Townsend, Washington.
Visit the Web site: http://www.nancyalvarezwrites.com/
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