Over the weekend, my writing partner and I held the first public reading of our script for just a handful of friends.  The script is a pilot about a "behavior therapist" forced to return to his family's mobile home estate in Central Florida after the unexpected death of his father.  Yes, it is a comedy.  
We worked on this script for almost a year and I found it therapeutic during the creation process.  The characters are inspired by my real life family and the over-arching theme throughout the piece  is love.  It was a wonderful experience to hear some great actors read "out loud" the lines that had been on the paper for so long.  And, along with that reading of the writing came a lot of realizations about the direction the script takes next (the arithmetic) ---- proof that art is truly never quite finished, it just seems to take breaks in interesting places.
The road ahead for this piece is unknown at this point, but the fact that we got it on its feet for a reading is very fulfilling.  Thank you to the actors and our handful of listeners and to my writing partner and, mostly, to my family for being the inspiration behind this humorous and inspiring story.  I continue to read, write and do my arithmetic, not only with this literary endeavor, but also with the stories that make up the script of my life.