(Not) Walking the Camino: Day 26
A rare, rainy day in LA makes it easy to do work stuff, as opposed to baseball games and pie eating and raccoon romping and all the other nonsense I’ve been up to since Amanda headed out nearly a month(!) ago.
The WGA held a morning “Screenwriter Coffee Talk” with agents and reps discussing the agent-client relationship — how it should work, what each should expect from the other, when to call it a day, why didn’t you stay in Dental School. If only we did this for all human relationships, both personal and professional — and for sure, that loser who asked you out. Because spelling out expectations up front makes it easier to hurl barbed accusations when it all goes to shit.
On the subject of accusations, the member Q+A unleashed more than a few against their reps . . . and the panel of agents and managers also gently presented their own client-from-hell tales. I’m lucky I adore my reps! They’re smart and capable and amazing, and they also might be reading this.
There were bagels and lox and fruit and coffee and yeah, you’re goddam right I stole a bagel for later.
Then I had an actual meeting on an original piece of IP that’s getting some buzz. I always tell Amanda, when I head to a meeting, “I’m going to kill it,” and she says, “Put down some towels and newspaper, it’s just considerate.”
My post-meeting code for It went great is, “Blood everywhere.”
Anyway, I killed it. Blood everywhere. I celebrated with this fancy home-cooked swordfish dinner and appletini.
If I’m not careful, I might come out of this with a degree of independence greater than that of a toddler.
Two days left on the trail! The closer they get to the Cathedral de Santiago, the ritzier it seems to get. Swimming pools, movie stars! I think everything might be solid gold at the end, or at least made of chocolate.
TOMORROW . . . closing in on four weeks! It seems so long and yet, there are few things you can accomplish in only a month. (You could grow and harvest arugula in four weeks, or kale. But why would you want to?)