True Confessions of an Actor/Screenwriter (Part I)

“I’ll become a serious writer when I’m 40” I said, like the clueless early 20-something actor/writer that I was. As if it was all that easy, as if it was my “plan B”, the way one gets a degree in marketing or accounting to fall back on while tinkering at an arts career. I loved writing. I did it all the time, just for fun. At the time of the above statement I was bumping around New York City with my…