I'm an entertainment consumer. With few, scant, exceptions. Time to make sure I hold onto those exceptions, expand them a little, and branch into other territory.
Webcomics: consume [having vague thoughts about getting into producing...]
Video games: consume [used to dream of producing these... whatever happened?]
D&D: consume, and produce a little [DMing one game, playing in three.]
TV/online video: consume a few shows [TV Production was an incredibly fun class in high school...]
Humor blogs: consume [with the occasional joke or funny thing here]
Books: consume [never really thought much about writing fiction... hmm]
Music: best inroads so far on production, thanks to
forgotten_aria, honeyartichoke, and Z... as well as ENSMB, who sold me a trombone and lessons. Oops, I should probably schedule those.
What am I waiting for? I'm ready now, I can get any supplies I need, I can make it happen if I put my mind to it. There isn't any more "when I grow up, I want to..."—this is it.
This is, to some extent, a follow-up to my post about "my thing."
Webcomics: consume [having vague thoughts about getting into producing...]
Video games: consume [used to dream of producing these... whatever happened?]
D&D: consume, and produce a little [DMing one game, playing in three.]
TV/online video: consume a few shows [TV Production was an incredibly fun class in high school...]
Humor blogs: consume [with the occasional joke or funny thing here]
Books: consume [never really thought much about writing fiction... hmm]
Music: best inroads so far on production, thanks to
forgotten_aria, honeyartichoke, and Z... as well as ENSMB, who sold me a trombone and lessons. Oops, I should probably schedule those.What am I waiting for? I'm ready now, I can get any supplies I need, I can make it happen if I put my mind to it. There isn't any more "when I grow up, I want to..."—this is it.
This is, to some extent, a follow-up to my post about "my thing."
Comments
Knowing how to do one and trying to do the other is very hard work. I've considered the same dilemma as you describe above, and have found that I just have no facility to do things that are open-endedly creative. If there are rules, or patterns to follow, or source materials to emulate, I can usually put something together, but if it's something that is naked creativity, I'm at a loss. I've done computer games, when I worked at Turbine, but that was much more on the logical side of things, building infrastructure.
Anyway, don't let any of that dissuade you from giving it a good effort! But don't get disappointed if it's not at all easy, either. :-)
This is just my declaration that there isn't a later - now is the time I've been waiting for, or as close as I'll ever get to it.
Or a Porsche. I don't know anyone who would do that.
Hey lets write a script and film it....
Hm, I should just find someone way too young to date. That'd cure it.