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INTRODUCTION<br />
“So That Happened”<br />
Can I just tell you that there has never been a moment quite as scary in my<br />
publishing life as when I published the first issue of Pulp & Popcorn two weeks ago?<br />
There was a period of about fifteen minutes where I just sat at the keyboard,<br />
everything loaded up and ready to go, and considered deleting the whole damn thing<br />
and just going back to my job hunt. I’m in a strange place right now. I either need to<br />
start generating income based on my personal work, or I need to go back to work for<br />
someone else. There’s a certain kind of security that I’ve grown accustomed to, one<br />
that is reassuring when you’re the father of two children, but that security comes<br />
with a price, and I’ve been thinking a lot about that price the last few weeks.<br />
I compare the job of writing about film and entertainment on a daily basis to<br />
walking on a treadmill. You’re in constant motion, but you never seem to get<br />
anywhere or accomplish anything substantial. I can’t tell you how many things I’ve<br />
wanted to do over the years, only to have the demand of the daily grind gradually<br />
beat all of the ambition out of me. You get to a point where you’re just trying to keep<br />
up with the always-hungry maw, and you never really have a chance to step back and<br />
look at what you’re doing. The last few months, I’ve had a chance to really look<br />
around at the state of movie journalism and, honestly, I’m not sure where I fit in it at<br />
this point. There are so many good writers out there right now, and it feels like<br />
they’re all being asked to run a marathon with one leg tied behind their back. In a<br />
world of clickbait, what good is it to be a real writer? I don’t care about writing<br />
breathless stories every time a new trailer is released, and I don’t care who just got<br />
cast in a film that won’t be out for three years. There is such an ugly competitive<br />
thing in our business, and yet the stakes are so low and the actual things people are<br />
fighting over are often ridiculous.<br />
So can I do this in a different way?<br />
Can I do this in my own way?
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