Donald F. Glut, Writer, Film Director, and Screenwriter: And I looked at my friends who were successful and they were all concentrating on the thing they did best and once I learned that a lot of doors opened up for me.
Film Courage: Don how many office jobs or day jobs have you had in your lifetime?
Don: In my entire lifetime? Let me see, what kind of normal jobs that I have? When I was about 12, I had a paper route for a while and I delivered neighborhood newspapers. When I was 17 I worked a month and a half in a greeting card and wrapping paper company in Chicago. Then I worked once during Christmas vacation for a month and a half for a book company in Chicago putting bins together and stocking shelves of books.
When I moved to California (as an adult) I had a girlfriend whose mother didn’t believe that writing was a real job, so to impress the mother, I took a job at an advertising agency in the daytime and then to make a little more money I worked in a bookstore at night. The only time I was home was when I was sleeping or in between the two jobs and I think that was pretty much it. I don’t think any of these jobs lasted more than about a month and a half.
Film Courage: Has it been your life’s mission to not work a quote-unquote day job?…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, myriad TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC. Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second “Star Wars” movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1 Best Seller). Don currently executive-produces, writes and directs “traditional-style” horror for his company Pecosborn Productions, and writes scripts for The Creeps horror comics magazine. Also, he is a Southern California representative of Las Vegas Talent Agency. Note: Any motion picture titles that may be listed prior to Dinosaur Valley Girls (1997) are of amateur movies, the first of 41 of which Don Glut made when he was nine years old.
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