write a film script

I realised something. How do I write something original when there are no more original ideas? Like everything’s been done. I had a thought this morning that…it’s the way you present these ideas, with your own interpretation…that’s what makes them new and fresh and … BRILLIANT :)

I don’t have much more to day other than it feels really good to be accomplishing this. Besides the satisfaction of completing a long held goal—I have rediscovered the joy in writing its one of the few activities I really look forward to during the week.

I have so much written work and reading to do this year that i don’t know if i should even think about my film script but once things calm down in half a year or so i should be able to finish what i started 16 months ago..

I want to write a film script equal in depth and texture to Withnail and I. To make people leave the cinema numb with contemplation. To excite, inspire, entertain, thrill, scare, sadden. I think I can do it but am terrified about starting in case I just can’t.

well. I started it. It’s coming on ok. Don’t hold your breath… I’m a busy busy girly!

Well after about two months of biweekly meetings we have finished the plot—so this week I am working on the treatment and one scene my partner is working on another scene.

It’s going so well. I couldn’t be happier about our progress.

I forgot that this was even a goal but started working on a script at the instigation of a friend who had a connection with some fellowship I could apply for. I couldn’t get it together in time for hte workshop but really enjoyed working on it. The I was telling a friend about an event I witnessed and she said I should write a book. I told her I didn’t want to wrote a book just now but that I would write a script and why didn’t she write it with me. That was about a month ago. We have been working on it twice a week in between work—we both travel so its not easy to get together but we have been very dedicated.

I’m taking a screenwriting module this semester so hopefully it’ll go well.

Also, thinking of heading North for the Ffresh Awards with a couple of friends to see what kind of work people are submitting.

But it’s next week..

and i’m a poor, impoverished student…

I want to write a film script.