Who knew that being unemployed could be so hard.
I've always had a "it will work out attitude" about life in general - but for the first time I'm really beginning to wonder...will it?
And for the first time in forever I feel financially challanged.
Alot of it has to do with the output for my son and his acting.
Having found a new magnificent agent and agency to represent him, I thought all the hard work was done - boy was I wrong!
Ninna has us hopping!
It all started with the fact that my son's current zed card pictures were to put it midly "inadequate".
I've known for a while that the pictures didn't really look anything like he did - one even made my blonde boy look like he had red hair...yikes!
Knowing this and fixing this are two different worlds though, first up was finding a new photographer to take my sons pictures.
Which we did in Shandon Youngclaus. He is an LA photographer who I would recommend to anyone in the entertainment business who is needing headshots. http://www.amazingheadshots.com/
He was very good with my son and has a really good eye and ability for getting the picture and if you want fast...this is the place http://www.argentum.com/
Shadon's studio uploads the pictures to them and i don't know if this is the norm or not, but I had the viewing proofs emailed to me that very night!
283 in all...whew! The best surprise though was that, with very few exceptions, they were amazing!
Hoping Ninna would feel the same way I sent the link to her and she narrowed down her favorites to 46 pics - which I then had to order on line in 4 x 6.
These 4x6's I then took up to LA for Ninna to whittle down even more.
Who knew that just the picture process could be so time consuming.
I look daily to try and find that one elusive job that will fit all the niches required to make it workable for all the obligations we've put on our platter now with the acting.
I'm still writing daily on my book and have progressed little by little. It's weird...I have the whole outline on paper but still manage to get writers block.
I've neglected my fan fiction horribly and feel so bad because it already has a reading audience, but it just doesn't pay the bills.
With the resolution of the writers strike looming on the horizon it promises to get busy, busy, busy around the house with auditions and hopefully actual acting gigs.
Let's cross our fingers for the boy X0x0
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Decisions in Haste
Confusion reigns supreme in my life right now.
I've had to make some major decisions regarding my son's acting, but I think it's all good.
Suprisingly after sending only four resumes to see if we could interest any agents in representing him we got two calls - that's a pretty good percentage - unfortunately the second call came after we had already decided to go with another agency.
And although we are not contractually obligated (new agent believes you don't need a piece of paper to keep you where you want to be) I believe the decision I made was a good one.
I really like his new agent and her vision for his future success.
On my job front though I am coming up dry. I still feel that finding a job outside the home would be a mistake of huge proportions. I need to be self-employed if things are going to work for my son's acting. Finding a suitable self employment though is daunting to say the least
I still continue to work on my book but must admit the enthusiasm isn't as strong now.
Not sure why though - perhaps because it's such a light subject and has no real depth? But honestly that was my choice for my first book.
It could also be the lack of response I received when I threw caution to the wind and posted the first chapter on fictionpress.com
Although maybe I'm giving up too easy - maybe I should post another chapter and just see.
My inclination is to self publish and see if interest in my book on a site like that would capture the attention of bigger representation.
Today is set to be busy for me getting my son ready for his next trip to Hollywood, but I also need to latch on to my domestic side today and get some cleaning done, so for now this blog will have to constitute my fulfill my daily writing quotient.
Tootles,
~Juana
I've had to make some major decisions regarding my son's acting, but I think it's all good.
Suprisingly after sending only four resumes to see if we could interest any agents in representing him we got two calls - that's a pretty good percentage - unfortunately the second call came after we had already decided to go with another agency.
And although we are not contractually obligated (new agent believes you don't need a piece of paper to keep you where you want to be) I believe the decision I made was a good one.
I really like his new agent and her vision for his future success.
On my job front though I am coming up dry. I still feel that finding a job outside the home would be a mistake of huge proportions. I need to be self-employed if things are going to work for my son's acting. Finding a suitable self employment though is daunting to say the least
I still continue to work on my book but must admit the enthusiasm isn't as strong now.
Not sure why though - perhaps because it's such a light subject and has no real depth? But honestly that was my choice for my first book.
It could also be the lack of response I received when I threw caution to the wind and posted the first chapter on fictionpress.com
Although maybe I'm giving up too easy - maybe I should post another chapter and just see.
My inclination is to self publish and see if interest in my book on a site like that would capture the attention of bigger representation.
Today is set to be busy for me getting my son ready for his next trip to Hollywood, but I also need to latch on to my domestic side today and get some cleaning done, so for now this blog will have to constitute my fulfill my daily writing quotient.
Tootles,
~Juana
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