The challenge for any creative, from starving painter to frustrated screenwriter, is to make enough money to survive, preferably doing what you love. Most of us work two jobs for years - the nine-to-five bill paying job and the passion job after hours; the writing, the painting, the filmmaking. The passion job that keeps you up all night and guarantees you no sleep. So not only do we put ourselves out there to be evaluated by our nine-to-five bosses Monday through Friday, on our "time off" we're out there trying to persuade people to read us, represent us, like our projects and fund us, too.
Money, money, money. The thing is, it's always about the money. Either money to feed your belly, pay the rent, diaper the kids, stave off the bill collector, or money to attach that A-list actor to your itty-bitty project and make all your dreams come true. Money is the great provider and the great taker-away.
Money is the one wall all creatives come crashing against one time or another and it's the universal thing that can send dreamers of all shapes, colors and sizes packing up their toys and tools and going back home, giving up on their pursuits and passions forever.
So today, if you have a few pennies you can spare and you know an actor, a writer, anyone with a dream and a project that could use a little help, reach out with that change and help make that vision come true. And let's celebrate the dreamers who don't give up, even when the only thing they have in their cupboard is salsa, chips and a couple bags of ramen noodles.
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