Artist Way: Week Twelve

This is it, folks. We're done as of this post. Let's see what The Artist's Way has in store for me.

...Not a lot. Apparently.

Okay then.

I couldn't really decide between any of these mostly because none of them stuck out. I decided I was going to synthesis two of them:

"List five people to whom you can talk about your dreams and with whom you can feel supported to dream and then plan."

1. GENESIS. Genesis. Genesis. Homegirl has been with me since the very beginning of this trainwreck. She's heard most of my ideas, and while she makes fun of how often I talk about them, she's hella supportive of them (and is even responsible for some of them. When I finally write and publish Motion, she will be the one it's dedicated to. The inscription shall read "started from the bottom now we here.")
2. Tara, who is practically me and has boundless enthusiasm for my long winded tirades. During lunch in high school we would have a segment called "Stupid Stories with Ace and Aro" where we just babbled on to our friends about fairytales and obscure historical facts.
3. Meredith, the love of my life, who is a high school senior now but is still definitely more put together than me, even if she doesn't believe it. She always supports me in everything and I am all too glad to return the favor.
4. My grandma. She is just so proud that I have dreams at all that she loves hearing about them. We have conversations about all sorts of topics and she never fails to inspire me.
5. Connie, my dad's girlfriend of several years, who is surprisingly easy to talk to. I told her I was asexual before I actually told my dad, and even though I really only see her once a week I feel like she would support be interested in whatever endeavor I disclose to her.

"Honestly, what would you most like to create? What oddball paths would you open-mindedly dare to try? What appearances are you willing to shed to pursue your dreams?"

There's a trilogy of novels (with a trilogy of supporting novellas) that have been stewing in my mind for six years that our going to get published one day. I mentioned it above in my dedication to Genesis, who unwittingly spawned it during an X-Men roleplay in the sixth grade and allowed it to get wildly out of hand. I have not once abandoned the characters and the story and I am confident I never will.

There's also several other stories that I have in my back pocket that will follow, be it in publishing or, as I'm starting to think, become screenplays.

The screenwriting world began as an oddball path that gets more and more plausible the more I get into it. I never really considered doing anything in film, but my time in dramatic media is already making me more versatile. Another oddball path I'm considering is just... holding off grad school to go travel. Not even necessarily out of the country, but to like... El Paso, New Mexico, California just to see the way other people live. Of course, I'll need money for that, but it couldn't hurt to try.

As for appearances I'm willing to shed? ... I don't really know. I don't know what counts as 'appearances' to me. I've always tried to have as much integrity as possible, and as of right now I'm still establishing myself. I think I need to try stuff on before I shed something.