Funny How the Past will Come back to you.

I've always funny how the past will come back to you. It could come back to haunt you, or it could come back to save you. Last night at this Comic Book Workshop, the past saved me. I've been a bit confused lately about what exactly I would be doing for a future career. Something in the Animation Arts.

So I thought about making Manga (Japanese Graphic Novels) and the downer to that is I would have to go to Japan and leave everything here behind. Not going to do that. I could go to Hollywood and make movies but thats a one in a million chance of that working out.

Last night, this guy I talked to gave me an idea for such a perfect plan. I used to do comics, I made them. Sometimes they'd be 1 page long but they were so much fun to make even though most of the time people had no idea what the picture was of but I did and thats all that mattered.

I stopped doing comics for awhile and moved onto filming after I stumbled upon my Step Father's camera. I then got into making movies, something I loved. I was typically making movies with figures, cause at the time I had no friends to make movies with.

That went on for awhile and I still make them today but if I did them for myself like before I probable wouldn't be making them anymore. I do them cause people support my movies and I owe a lot to the 200 and something odd number of people who watch my videos and subscribe to me.

But Comics just sort of faded away. I stopped reading them, stopped paying any attention to them. Then this class roles around and I of course am very agervated with where my drawing skills have gone.

So this guy comes over to help another kid next to me and the kid just does NOT want to do anything except make stuff out of paper. Which was fine but then he asked me how I was doing with the 2 page comic we were assigned to do.

I was trying to think of an idea and being a writer for such a long time I couldn't think of any ideas off the top of my head. I'm not good at improv, so this guy did the drawing while I told him what could happen and we chatted about Animation and Comics and he gave me a idea of what I'd liked to do.

Its sort of like, whats that story with the three bears? Goldy Locks! Probable spelt that wrong, Goldy Locks yes. First one: Going to Japan was a dream I could go for but it would lead me into a country that I wouldn't fit into. Second one: Was Impossible cause Hollywood is so closed off to SKILLED writers and just want pop culture.

But this plan gives me the oppurtunity to go back to Ohio and write from there like I always wanted to do. I can take a part time job somewhere and while I do that, see if I can get some Comics published, then after that I can look at some animation jobs. See if I can write some shows for some people. Which will lead me into the exact spot I want to be which is in an animation studio working on shows like Batman like I've always wanted to. Of course I gotta get through college before I do that.

I'm pretty happy, Step #1 Survive School Step
#2 Survive College

#3 Make enough money to support myself in Ohio.

#4 Begin work on a story

#5 Find a publisher

#6 Make the comic.

#7 Get it published

#8 Continue Publishing Comics till my name is somewhat heard of in the Comic Book Community

#9 Check out some studios that need a writer or animator.

#9 Hopefully, God help me, I get into a studio

#10 Make shows of my own and become widely known in the animation department.

#11 Give my Grandmother and Grandpa Phil the $20 they want

#12 Die a happy man

Thats what I'm going to do... (Believe it). Hahhahaha, and if I fail I get right back up and try again. Thats what I'm going to do, watch me world. Anyways, now that I am done being full of myself which isn't a good thing, I shall be rapping up this blog.

Thanks for reading,

Austin "Slade" Ernst