Andrew Eckhart

Autobots, Rollout

Posted on 25 October 2010

Okay. The long and short of it is: when it comes to updates and things of that nature, I’m kind of a lazy bastard. That is to say, when I write or podcast or blog or tweet, I generally do it at will, not on a schedule.

The only thing truely scheduled in my life is the fact that I get up weekday mornings to go to work. And then come home to play videogames.

But I suppose I want to change things. Before my old blog at imagechaos when belly-up, I made a promise to myself to change my life ten days at a time. Which I suppose I did. And that one change was to initiate www.lastmage.com. A good friend of mine, Dakota, pointed out the other day that I had been doing the story for seven months solid. with very little interruption.

Very little interruption… I suppose a hospital stay is a small interruption.

In any event I feel that I’ll be pulling things together in the next few months to ensure that my dream of becoming a literary luminary is cemented.

Though, I feel that I’m not simply a person who focuses on writing — it just happens to be the free, easy alternative to everything else. In my dream world, here is what I’d be doing:

Running a residential real-estate company specializing in housing low-income families.

Writing for television

Writing for film

Writing for internet and interactive experiences

Creating and developing videogames

running a film production company.

Directing films.

Directing plays and musicals.

Writing plays and musicals.

Travel around the world.

I want to do all of these things. This is my dream. I just wish that I had the opportunity to do them. It’s difficult to do them without money.

So, I need to make these dreams come true. I fear that if I don’t I’ll descend into some sort or despairing insanity. Because I can’t imagine myself doing anything else.

So it’s time to move out, move forward. Quarter life crises be damned.