Monthly Archives: July 2012

Blocking Your Emotions With Other Peoples (And This Weeks Writing Prompt!)

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Do any of you do this?

I rarely get sad, but when I do can I be the most miserable and moody person in the world. But as I said this is rare, because I usually bottle stuff up and deal with it internally which I believe I am quite good at doing. A lot of the time I take a “screw it, what’s the point of worrying” approach. Because what is the point? I hate being sad so I choose not to be.

And another way in which I can ignore my own feelings and forget about them is to help others. And helping others for me can be seen as a really selfish thing to do, because it helps me put my own stuff into perspective and I get a great sense of satisfaction from knowing that a majority of the time (I hope anyway) that I have helped them and cheered them up.

And you could argue that well, if you’re helping someone, then it isn’t really selfish at all, because yeah, you’re getting enjoyment and satisfaction out of helping them, but at the end of the day that’s just a nice bonus for dishing out the advice. Right? Continue reading →

Music That Inspires Me: Hanging On by Active Child/Ellie Goulding ft. Tinie Tempah

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This weeks “Music That Inspires Me” is actually two songs, one a cover of the other. The original is a song called Hanging On by Active Child, which can be viewed below. The cover by Ellie Goulding featuring Tinie Tempah is below the first video. I thought it would be  interesting for my readers to have a chance to listen to both because they’re so different from each yet a like, it’s strange:

Active Child:

Ellie Goulding ft. Tinie Tempah:

How Can I Come Up With An Idea? [UPDATED]

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Especially when they’ve all been done before.

I am currently in the process of trying to write out the story for the feature length script I will be writing for University starting in September. I have finally settled onto an idea, one that I have been saving for a few years, but I can’t seem to complete it.

The idea draws on my experience of working as a photographer at an American summer camp a few years ago. What I have so far is this; Continue reading →

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“…I felt like a character in a Dinsey movie, and I half expected the squirrels to start talking as I followed the property line south from the gatehouse.
That gave me no comfort. Bad things happen to good animals in some Walt Disney movies. Think of Bambi’s mother and Old Yeller, the former shot down in front of her child, the latter foaming at the mouth with rabies and killed by the boy who loved him. People don’t always fare better. Even the sweetest of princesses gets poisoned by witches. There was a touch of Quentin Tarantino in Uncle Walt.”

 

- Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz

My Views On Writing With A Pen And Other Stuff

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I hate writing with a pen. In this age of computers and virtual keyboards on our phone screens the need for a pen is growing less and less. When I write I use a keyboard for obvious reasons, and even in University writing isn’t that much of a must, and even then it is the odd scribbled notes.

But what’s hard is after a summer not writing and you finally start doing some, in a notepad, your hand aches so much. Well, mine does. If you hate it, why then are you using it? Good question!

I have recently started using pen and paper for two reasons;

1) When you’re at computer typing there is so much to distract you, from checking Facebook to tidying up all those random Desktop saves. But if I put my music on and then go sit on my bed, using pen and paper, then I can’t be distracted…as easily.

2) When I eventually get round to typing up my work, that in itself can act as a redraft before you even start the numbered save files with all the incremental changes.

Unfortunately I haven’t done enough writing this summer at all, when you do nothing all day  over the summer, just wasting time till University starts again motivation starts to leave and when you have no motivation you can’t motivate yourself to find any and it’s just a vicious circle.

As far as summers go this has been one of the worst, although since going to work in America for two months back in 2010, every summer will feel lesser to that. Me and my girlfriend broke up this summer too, which obviously has had bad effects on my productivity, when you feel so bummed out it’s harder to motivate yourself. And like I said above, you need motivation to motivate yourself to get motivated. It sucks but it’s true.

I have tried my hardest to keep the blog active, and hopefully I will have some writing work in the next couple of weeks for a friends charity so I will have to be motivated for that, and I am also looking after a friends house for a month, she lives in a huge house and has the most adorable dog, so that will give me something to do every day, walking him.

Sorry I haven’t got back to the comments left on my writing prompt posts, I’d just like to let you know I have read them and I have loved all the work so far, and I hope you will all keep submitting them and eventually I will get round to the comments, there is just a bit of a back log now, which was through my own laziness.

I hope everyone is well and you haven’t abandoned me! I’m nearly at a 1000 followers now, which when I break that barrier I will be a very happy blogger!