As a writer, there’s not much more gratifying than having your words read by others. Hearing them read out loud is even more fun. That’s one of the benefits of writing plays or screenplays as opposed to prose. Those words are meant to be performed.
Because I have yet to sell any of the dozen or so screenplays I’ve written, I have at times taken matters into my own hands (actually into a whole group of others’ hands) and created vehicles for those words. I present one of them here.
Today we find ourselves mired in–choose your favorite adjective–unprecedented, challenging, trying, difficult, crazy times. As I described in this post on my other blog, unless you were alive in 1918 to experience the incorrectly named Spanish influenza epidemic, you are flailing about with the rest of us in uncharted territory. Perhaps I was prescient when I wrote the script for the accompanying video, but probably not. The video does, however, capture the spirit of the times in which we live. I hope you enjoy the gallows humor.
Profound thanks to my friends at Dark Glass who produced this video eight years ago. Check out their other videos on their YouTube channel.
Scribbling in the Sand 
Now relevant again with the Don’t Look Up movie!
Yes, I thought the same when I saw the movie. The similarities in spirit run deep although their production quality was slightly higher than ours. We could have done as well with a bigger budget. The advantage we had is that they only had DiCaprio. We had you. 🙂
Also, we did it twelve years earlier!