The View Up Here

Get your butt up off the chair and shuffle it!

Today at work I met with a student, James, who I've tutored many times, a student with a creative fire who wants to be a TV writer. Over the last two semesters, James would come to me with an idea for a script, or part of a draft, or a logline, and we'd talk about how he could develop it and structure his stories. He's a writer who sees his characters first and weaves the story around them. Often all he needed was someone in his corner to say, "You can do this!" This student, in my opinion, is very sensitive, talented and has a lot to say with his writing. Today he came by to say good-bye. He had to drop out of school because of not having a spot in the dorms, and having to live in a homeless shelter. His ma kicked him out last semester, and he's been living in shelters and where ever he can crash ever since. Today he told me that the woman at VESID told him that he's not cut out for school because he got such bad grades last semester. She told him to ju...