Who will I be?

This post was going to be about my progress with the She-Hulk screenplay but after going to Janelle Monáe's concert yesterday, I had to push that back to Tuesday. Going to that concert changed my life. Seriously. Well, okay maybe not my life but it did change something inside me.

I'm a big fan of Janelle Monáe. I have all her albums and you can usually find me listening to her songs when I'm plugged into my iPod. Going to the concert was a big deal for me. I won't bore you with details like how I was three hours early and made friends with strangers in the queue, I promise. But standing there in the crowd, metres away from Janelle Monáe was spectacular. More so when I started listening to watch she was telling us.

I don't remember her exact words, but at one point she said to us "no matter what race, gender, who you love or what god you serve, we all deserve to be treated with equal respect". Okay, obviously this is true but it's not too often that you hear someone saying it. Calling the world out on its bad behaviour. And standing there, I decided I wanted to share this message of true love.

Yes, I still want to be a writer. (I may also want to be an editor but that's for another post.) But I do also want to be very present in my presence, so to speak. I want to go to schools and give talks to students. I want to hold motivational seminars. I want to make people feel good to be themselves. I hope to achieve this through my writing but I want to have a 'stage presence' as well.

We'll wait and see.

First step: investing in a cape.