By JEFFREY ALAN SCHECHTER
You have your eye set on the big fish — writing for features or television — and that’s fine. Someone has to write those, so why not you? I’ve done both, and it’s also very satisfying, however, you are in a perpetual state of waiting for the phone to ring. Unless you’re independently wealthy, you need someone to change your life by hiring you. Maybe they’ll call and maybe they won’t. And even if they do, and you get that job, as soon as it’s over you’re back to waiting for the phone to ring again.
But there is something you can do while waiting. You can create something from nothing and get it out to the world. The digital universe moves in real time, and it is the ultimate democracy. You don’t have to live in Los Angeles to be taken seriously....
