A decade later, while a freshman at fifteen, I read my first book on how to write screenplays. I was inspired (like everyone else) by Tarintino's film, Pulp Fiction. So I wrote my first screenplay.
I laugh at it now. It was basically Pulp Fiction but it took place in Miami, Florida. The main characters name was Vincent Vegas and the working title for the script was Miami Vice. I thought I was sitting on Hollywood gold with big aspirations to start raking in the Oscars.
That of course is not how things panned out and I'm grateful for being given the oppertunity to be forced to find meaning in areas of life otherwise neglected.
We live in a world where we crank up the pressure to just its breaking point and call it progress. But all it does is shovel more coal in the hungry mouth of the beast; and it shows in peoples work. So I start to see a growing value in the slow burn. Life's too precious to plow full speed ahead until you blow a gasket. I prefer the slow burn, the journey just as much as the destination. Because the process behind the recipe is just as important.
