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I'll tell a story -- making a little fun of myself. When I made Top 30 in the first contest I was out one rainy day in New York, and I passed a woman on the street who smiled a smile of recognition at me. I didn't know who she was, and usually people don't smile at you on the streets of New York. I thought to myself, "That's it! That's a sign! I'm going to make it to the next round of Project Greenlight. It's happening! THAT WAS A SIGN!"

I walked about a block with a smile on my face convinced it was a sign of success to come. Then I realized I'd taken my daughter's Disney umbrella to keep dry. I'd run out so quickly, I'd kind of forgotten about it.

She wasn't giving me a sign at all. The look of recognition had to do with the umbrella. "Oh yeah, I've done that before. Using the kid's umbrella."

I certainly envisioned being more successful.

But I guess as long as you enjoy the work it's relative. Since then I've had 16 plays produced (most all short pieces) in New York's Off Off Broadway theatres, and I finally sold my first screenplay to a small production company. I've raised a daughter. I've had a divorce (did not see that one coming). I've done some acting. I started a new business. I had a massive pulmonary embolism (did not see that one coming either). Life's an adventure. As long as you're entertaining yourself as an artist, then I guess you can't ever really lose. It is nice though when you entertain other people as well!

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I never thought I'd be married, let alone be at the start of raising our daughter (she's only 7.5 months old--but a total giggle monster) in a state I never thought I'd live in, and trying to find a way to be able to afford moving us all to Hawaii to live permanently. I still love films and watch them a lot and am still a voting member of BAFTA, but I don't write screenplays anymore. I found the format too restrictive--so I moved onto novel writing dabbling. Who knew that novel writing would be too UNrestrictive as to prove daunting.

So I still do write, but smaller pieces and mostly just for my own pleasure. And I am rather prolific in emails to people, even those I see on a regular basis.

Now, although I'm not living in a modern beach house on the California southern coast while writing films and TV programs, I'm still content with my lot in life... for now.

Life sounds good, Jenny.  As you know I have a daughter.  It seems like yesterday that she was 2 ... and now she's 15.  I felt like I blinked, and she grew up.  I'm glad I spent so much time with her when she was growing up though.  There are things I put on hold to do that.  But it was worth it.  And she an awesome kid, a freshman now at the "Fame" high school studying fine art.