What if?

Hey my friends.

Sorry I’ve been MIA!

I can not thank you enough for sticking around. These last few months have been insane. Honestly, thank christ I'm not doing a podcast right now. The hate online is just too fucking much and I'm happy writing and doing jiujitsu while working on my mental health.

It’s not that I don’t care about what’s happening in the news. Or have thoughts. Maybe even thoughts that could help. But right now it doesn’t seem like anyone is listening to anything or anyone they didn’t already agree with.

The algorithms are starting civil wars, and I just don’t want to be a part of it. What I can do is make art that hopefully makes people happy. What I can do is be kind to my loved ones, people who reach out, and people I see in the real world, while at the same time working to be the best version of myself.

It’s no MLK but it’s what I got in me right now.

So 1. Here is what you have been supporting since I have been gone.

The TV trailer I posted is actually blowing the fuck up. On top of that the film I wrote is getting into some major programs. So while these things aren't paying the bills it certainly is showing me that this dyslexic, terrible spelling, high school drop out isn't totally insane for wanting to be a writer.

If this tv show or movie get made you are part of that so thank you.

What I'm working on now is a book and one man show that a hero of mine may produce.

I almost shut this and the Patreon down cause it’s just been a slowly deserted ghost town. I stopped doing anything, then just felt bad. I close my patreon a few times a year, lose a few hundred, come back, never recoup etc. I know you are supposed to do behind the scenes shit but anything that reminds me of marketing or social media is just gross.

I never want to money grab. I just want to make stuff.

SO

I was gonna shut this down and patreon down again but instead I was thinking, what if once a week I wrote a short story. You guys could write your stories. Connect. Maybe I'll do more writers workshops?

I just started writing a short story this morning and really loved it and it hit me that maybe this and my substack could be a place for it to land until book deal comes along. Then who knows what will be next.

Sending so much love and aloha friends. Always hit me up if you need me. For real.

This place is about to get weird! (And if you were here for social commentary even in fiction I don’t think I know how to write without it. Unfortunately.)