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I've had a weird moment of clarity recently. Well, it was less a moment of clarity as my mum pointing out something I've known since I was very little.
I am a fucking good writer.
Okay, it may never really come across in my livejournal, but writing is something that comes so effortlessly to me and I just love doing it. I've always been good at it and it's so much easier to me than drawing or film making. I could write for ages, short stories, poetry, rants, scripts... My tutors have always said that it's one of my strengths aside from my endless well of good ideas (only hampered by my lack of good execution of said ideas). I want to be a writer, I want to write and write and write. Even on one of my off days, I can pull off a half-way decent bit of prose.
Okay, enough of my ego, but it has come to my attention that I am both too young, too inexperienced and have a lack of contacts. I have met nothing but brick walls when trying to get my short film made and I just want to get it right... I want to get it made and it to be the thing that launches me. But to do that, I have to do other people's work first. I have to do my time. I've come to a decision; I will put the whole project on hold until my debts are clear, I have a secure job in an industry I love and extend and build my well of ideas. Greg's a character that's permanantly stuck in my head, but I want to do novels and graphic novels first THEN maybe do a film or TV series. It's not my time just yet. Hell, Tim Burton didn't get to do Peewee's Big Adventure till he was in his thirties and that was a film he wasn't really keen on doing, now he's doing what he wants and he's a damned good director. I'm just out of my teens, I know squat. If that. All I have are ideas, not the means to execute them. I have to keep at my degree and get some good experience from it, I have loads of good ideas for this year and have learned a ton of stuff from my time at Paramount. For now, I'm going to work on my stories, my shorts and maybe some graphic novel scripts. I learned from the best after all.
I'm going to stick with what I know, expand on it and soon enough what I know will soon include some other very useful stuff as well.
I am a fucking good writer.
Okay, it may never really come across in my livejournal, but writing is something that comes so effortlessly to me and I just love doing it. I've always been good at it and it's so much easier to me than drawing or film making. I could write for ages, short stories, poetry, rants, scripts... My tutors have always said that it's one of my strengths aside from my endless well of good ideas (only hampered by my lack of good execution of said ideas). I want to be a writer, I want to write and write and write. Even on one of my off days, I can pull off a half-way decent bit of prose.
Okay, enough of my ego, but it has come to my attention that I am both too young, too inexperienced and have a lack of contacts. I have met nothing but brick walls when trying to get my short film made and I just want to get it right... I want to get it made and it to be the thing that launches me. But to do that, I have to do other people's work first. I have to do my time. I've come to a decision; I will put the whole project on hold until my debts are clear, I have a secure job in an industry I love and extend and build my well of ideas. Greg's a character that's permanantly stuck in my head, but I want to do novels and graphic novels first THEN maybe do a film or TV series. It's not my time just yet. Hell, Tim Burton didn't get to do Peewee's Big Adventure till he was in his thirties and that was a film he wasn't really keen on doing, now he's doing what he wants and he's a damned good director. I'm just out of my teens, I know squat. If that. All I have are ideas, not the means to execute them. I have to keep at my degree and get some good experience from it, I have loads of good ideas for this year and have learned a ton of stuff from my time at Paramount. For now, I'm going to work on my stories, my shorts and maybe some graphic novel scripts. I learned from the best after all.
I'm going to stick with what I know, expand on it and soon enough what I know will soon include some other very useful stuff as well.