Hi. Hopefully I’m sitting up straight, shoulders in the right position over my hips and … there we go. Yeah, and hopefully I’m not looking down at you, which apparently I have been doing. I have the laptop moved up now so that I, hopefully, I’m looking straight at you, as straight as I can at any rate. Forward, Debbi. Yeah, that’s right. Straighten out. Okay. Anyway, I just wanted to say I had a real breakthrough today in occupational and physical therapy. It was absolutely astonishing.
I’ve been at it since late December, basically January, and already I can do this. See that little move there? That little move there is essential to a grip. I never was able to grip anything with this hand [after developing dystonia], and I am now able to actually grab a cone and grip it with that hand. So to me that is a big win, a big success story of the day, so to speak.
And someday maybe this hand will match this hand again. That would really be nice. Anyway, while I’m at it, I may as well tell you that I’m going to buy this book.
No question about it, and I highly recommend it. For anybody who’s interested in screenwriting, get this book. Seriously, this goes into the business part of it and not quite enough attention is paid in those early books you read like Save the Cat and all that. I mean, they hint at it. Yeah, it’s going to be hard and screenwriting is hard. I don’t care what anybody says. Screenwriting is tough. It’s like writing short stories tough. You want to use a minimum of words, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, without going into all that, I will say that I just started this one and I am just into it. This is awesome.
Also, I spent a good deal of Sunday consuming this one.
This is a great book. I love Elly Griffiths. I love, what is the phrase she used that I love so much? If I can just find that place where I tabbed it, because I didn’t have a bookmark, but it was so cool. I loved it. Something about eccentric English humor or eccentric English something. I just thought it was so cool. I loved it and I just got this book and can’t wait to read this one.
Yeah. All right. Having said all that, it’s been a great day so far, and I just want to say that I’m not just telling you all this to just for myself, I’m telling you this for anybody who is suffering through any condition similar to the one that I have, if you happen to be one of those people who has something that seems unsolvable, don’t give up because I was literally ready to give up at one point and just say, “I can’t do any of this anymore.”
I was just so down and out and beaten up, losing my sales, losing the sense that I had actually made any kind of success of myself, that I was worthy of anything. It makes you feel suddenly worthless, oddly enough, or meaningless. The only thing that kept me going was the knowledge that I knew people who had believed in me and I continued to hang out with them and thank God that they were there, and thank God that I have found even more people who collectively are making me feel better every day. So that’s it, and I’ll talk to you later. Have a good day. See ya.
I found the tabbed part. I’m not doing a good job of gripping this book, am I there? There’s the tabbed part. Yeah. Where was it?
“There’s a folk band playing on the stage in front of a pub, and the whole scene has an eccentric British atmosphere that Natalka very much enjoys.”
I love an eccentric British atmosphere. I’m a sucker for it. Thank you. That is all.
PS: I looked for the direct sales book everywhere I could think to look, including Barnes & Noble, where this came up instead.
Um … 🙂