Eli McCaig: Actor, director and screenwriter in Trenton, Tennessee.

Hey everyone. I'm Eli McCaig, and I honestly don't know how to introduce myself. To be honest, I'm someone who wants to be a professional screenwriter, professional actor/voice actor, and a professional director.

To give more of a description of myself, I have a YouTube channel where I pitch movie/TV show ideas for projects I know I'll never be able to make. Earlier this month, I directed a short film that I wrote, and it was one of my passion projects. I recently saw the first cut of it, and I nearly started to cry because I saw something that was only ever written come to life.

I come up with ideas for movies/TV shows nearly 24/7 and it's hard to write them all down. I joked to a few co-workers of mine that I could pitch them a Black Adam movie set in Ancient Egypt with any demands that threw at me, and they threw out some crazy demands, like a Mummified Dragon. And, to their admittance, they were surprised I was able to pitch them a coherent movie idea that had all of their demands.

Yeah, that's really all I got for an introduction. Thank you all for your time.

I'm curious if I'm the only one that does this. I normally have a "dream" casting for certain roles whenever I write a script. As I write the script, I use those voices for the characters to help me hear the characters as real people.

My question is does anyone else do this, or is it just a me thing? It sort of helps me make sure that I finish the script. That way, mentally, I can say that these people have a truly finished story. Does anyone else have Voices in Their Heads?

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Hello Eli -

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