Finish what i start
2007 LMU graduated today. I'm proud of how far many of these people have come. I know their future will be filled with unceretainty and hardships, but also with light and hope.
I think i'm going to begin writing again. It was, afterall, playwrighting that i wanted to do when i first started at LMU, but there really was nothing to reinforce it so i stuck to stage management and lights. Seeing everyone graduate today brought me back not to my college commencement, but back to high school. After high school, there was far more uncertainty, i feel, than there was for after college. Was it going to be the best four years of my life, or was it going to be high school pt.2?? I remember having a very vivid dream about my whole freshman year a few weeks before classes started. it was wierd having a dream play out so much in a sort of cinematic manner. I woke up and just started jotting it all down in a notebook. At one point i started writing a script for it but never finished it. As time went on, i'd occasionally brainstorm the arc of the story to accommodate not just the dream i had that was only of freshman year, but to expand to four seperate films or episodes that spanned all four years. After seeing commencement today, i started to think about this unfinished work and if i could finish it all at some point and hopefully continue the universe into the real world outside of college. it just got me thinking of all the random plays, writings, novels, comic books that i started on, but never finished. If i can at least finish one of these many projects, i'd ba a very happy panda (i'm tossing a coin between the freshman year screenplay and "Land of a Thousand Douches" which i had submitted the first act to the playwrights festival in my senior year).
It just keeps bringing me back to one particular thing that i started, but never continued to work on: Anaki. After moving from Phoenix, one thing i did to cope was pen a couple of issues of a notebook comic book called Anaki Ekune Lee: The Heroic nobody. This comic reflected alot of the emotions i was going through (moving to an unknown place and starting anew, social acceptance, coming of age). In many ways, i was Anaki, minus being a cursed half Chinese half Japanese high school student. I managed to complete a few issues of the comic in the notebooks i'd pick up every now and then. I even had a begining and an end set for the series as a whole. I had it planned out that the first half of the series was to be whacky and over the top, while if i ever decided to end the comic, the last run of the series would take place Anaki's senior high school year and have more of a dramatic theme. i just think i need to get back to Anaki, sooner than later. With the advent of web comics, it's entirely possible that i might be able to reach a decent audience with my writings and since Anaki is so close to home to me, it would mean everything to the person i once was many years ago. He deserves to have his story told (both Anaki, and me age thirteen, and you're probably thinking i'm weird refering to myself in the third person . . .). I just need to really consider finally finishing some of the things i've already started, especially since i know it'll definitely be a long while before i ever get the chance to design or stage manage again.
I think i'm going to begin writing again. It was, afterall, playwrighting that i wanted to do when i first started at LMU, but there really was nothing to reinforce it so i stuck to stage management and lights. Seeing everyone graduate today brought me back not to my college commencement, but back to high school. After high school, there was far more uncertainty, i feel, than there was for after college. Was it going to be the best four years of my life, or was it going to be high school pt.2?? I remember having a very vivid dream about my whole freshman year a few weeks before classes started. it was wierd having a dream play out so much in a sort of cinematic manner. I woke up and just started jotting it all down in a notebook. At one point i started writing a script for it but never finished it. As time went on, i'd occasionally brainstorm the arc of the story to accommodate not just the dream i had that was only of freshman year, but to expand to four seperate films or episodes that spanned all four years. After seeing commencement today, i started to think about this unfinished work and if i could finish it all at some point and hopefully continue the universe into the real world outside of college. it just got me thinking of all the random plays, writings, novels, comic books that i started on, but never finished. If i can at least finish one of these many projects, i'd ba a very happy panda (i'm tossing a coin between the freshman year screenplay and "Land of a Thousand Douches" which i had submitted the first act to the playwrights festival in my senior year).
It just keeps bringing me back to one particular thing that i started, but never continued to work on: Anaki. After moving from Phoenix, one thing i did to cope was pen a couple of issues of a notebook comic book called Anaki Ekune Lee: The Heroic nobody. This comic reflected alot of the emotions i was going through (moving to an unknown place and starting anew, social acceptance, coming of age). In many ways, i was Anaki, minus being a cursed half Chinese half Japanese high school student. I managed to complete a few issues of the comic in the notebooks i'd pick up every now and then. I even had a begining and an end set for the series as a whole. I had it planned out that the first half of the series was to be whacky and over the top, while if i ever decided to end the comic, the last run of the series would take place Anaki's senior high school year and have more of a dramatic theme. i just think i need to get back to Anaki, sooner than later. With the advent of web comics, it's entirely possible that i might be able to reach a decent audience with my writings and since Anaki is so close to home to me, it would mean everything to the person i once was many years ago. He deserves to have his story told (both Anaki, and me age thirteen, and you're probably thinking i'm weird refering to myself in the third person . . .). I just need to really consider finally finishing some of the things i've already started, especially since i know it'll definitely be a long while before i ever get the chance to design or stage manage again.