My name is David Burd.  A year ago, I decided it was about time that I write a movie.  Why?  Well, for starters, it got very frustrating to keep seeing previews for comedies like “The Love Guru,” or “Superhero Movie.”  Literally no one on the planet finds these movies funny, yet they still get made year after year, it’s truly remarkable.  I am a very funny kid…I know it’s not a good thing to toot my own horn (class clown ’06, holla), and I really am not a horn tooter by any stretch of the imagination…but I’m funny.  I love to write as well, so I figured what the heck, it would be damn near impossible to write something less funny than “The Benchwarmers.”

As I developed my characters, came up with dialogue, and assembled a working plot, I began to notice that I was having an absurd amount of fun.  If you asked me a year ago if I could ever have had fun writing over a hundred pages about anything, I would have slapped you across the face; yet here I was, spending all of my free time writing, and loving every minute of it.

Then, like a ton of bricks, writer’s block hit me.  From what I hear, writer’s block happens to everyone, it’s just a natural process of writing.  I couldn’t come up with a good enough ending, and 90 pages deep, I gave up.  I didn’t give up because I doubted my ability to come up with an idea; I gave up because I began to wonder what the point was.  Getting out of writer’s block is no easy feat; it must be actively fought.  My roommate would chuckle every time he walked in and saw me writing.  He called this whole thing a “pipe dream.”  As I struggled, I began to think that he was right.  No matter how funny or good my screen play would turn out to be, the odds of it actually being made into a movie were highly unlikely.  The movie industry is a flawed one, where connections and credibility carry far more weight than a well written screen play.  So I stopped writing.

Then, I had an epiphany.  Deep down, I knew that I was funny, smart, and creative enough to write an excellent comedy, and the movie industry could never take that away from me, no matter how little attention or recognition I received.  If it’s meant to be, it will be, and perhaps one day I will be rewarded for my creativity.  I forgot about the most important part of writing my movie: that it’s fun.  And even if it never gets off of my shelf, and makes no difference in anyone else’s life, it has made a difference in mine.

Fortunately for me, at Play I know my talents won’t go unused.  More importantly, I now recognize that utilizing my creativity is enjoyable and rewarding in itself.  For these reasons, I am applying for the summer internship position at Play, and would love to try my hand at yet another creative opportunity.