This year has been a huge year for me, for so many reason, so so many. I’m not sure where to begin but I feel like just writing this post as almost the full stop at the end of a four year long sentence.
So what’s the main reason behind this? Well, as you know from my previous posts I have finished my degree in Screenwriting with Creative Writing which I studied at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, England. I now eagerly await the results. Continue reading
I’m done. It’s over. Last assignment has been handed in. Fin.
The end of a long and eventful four year stint of University has finally happened. I submitted my last piece of University work on Monday 6th May. This assignment was my first ever feature film written from start to finish.
I’m not sure how “good” the script is, there is a lot that needs to be redone and I think that when I rewrite it whenever that is, I will be removing the virtual world stuff totally and just focusing on the characters and the theme of “lovers separated”. I will reuse the virtual world back drop for another project possibly, with a different plot because I do like this idea of a virtual world but I just believe it did not benefit the story I ultimately told in the end.
If anyone is interested in reading the full feature film script email me: contact@wordsformwindows.com if you want to give feedback after reading it then be my guest, I will add it to a document and keep it with the script until I redraft it but at this stage feedback is no longer necessary. I will no longer be posting full scripts to here, I will instead do it the way I am with this, where if you’re interested in reading I will happily email it you but I think if I’m looking to get work made I should stop putting it online in its entirety.
Any short films though that I decide to write and make I will happily publish the full things here, for example a short film I want to make called “Impressions” I have already written about but any drafts of that I do in the comings months I will post because that work and the filming will be entirely my own…if that makes sense?
I’d just like to take a minute to thank you all as well. I know I have expressed my thanks numerous times over the recent months and the past years but without your constant help and feedback my writing and scripts wouldn’t be how they are today. WordPress has an amazing community with regards to helping each other out.
Here’s too whatever direction I decide to take now I have graduated! And again, thank you.
Late night train ride. Silent. A few members of crew the only sign of life, the rest of the passengers lie down, heads lolling around, as still as the dead.
I’m so tired. I’d love to be able to sleep like they do, but, sleeping on public transport freaks me out yuo see. No-one to look after my luggae.
Could miss my stop. Well, not this time as this train terminates at my stop. But, you catch my drift. I write to keep myself awake. Keep my mind focused. The can of Kronenbourg I’ve purchased will be counter productive to my efforts of alertness more than likely, but it feels needed.
Had such a busy day today. Up at the crack of dawn, and by crack I mean 7am BST. That is to say that dawn had already, well, dawned.
Met up with some people in the midlands. As a northerner this required a two hour trip each way (hence the early awakening) and minus £25 from my bank account. Totally worth it.
These people of which I speak…I’d never met them before. Not a single one of them. I’d spoken to two of them prior to going but never physically met either of them.
I got to the midlands, Birmingham to be specific, at 11am. And by now I thought the nerves would have kicked in but, to my surprise, the hadn’t. I just wasn’t nervous. This is a great improvement for me all things considered. Meeting new people is always hard for me, I’m shy, unapproachable, just a little awkward. Or so I thought. But this time, I knew where everyone was meeting so I found them and over to them, confident as you like and introduced myself.
Instantly I felt welcome. I guess now’s the time I tell you who I was meeting. Continue reading
Hey, this is the first bit of writing that I will have uploaded recently that is a proper script and not just a transcript or a poem! It’s only a short one, it’s for a short film/monologue I want to make after I finish Dear Amy. Continue reading
I’m graduating university soon. I should be sad at this, but honestly? I can’t wait.
People say University was the best time of their lives, that they’ll never forget their time at Uni. So why do I want to? Why do I want to forget it all?
For me, I see it this way. My first year at uni was awful. Filled with sadness and anger with the year ending up with me in hospital after drunkenly dropping the knife I was self harming with, into my foot.
I left my first year of uni exhausted, mentally, and I never thought I’d get myself back up again, I honestly felt broken.
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Since Christmas I have lost, according to Google, 2.3621 Stone, or 15kg, or 33.0693 pounds.
Now I know that’s not exactly a huge amount for most people, or doesn’t seem like it. And physically I wouldn’t say I look like I’ve lost that weight (although when I recently saw my mother (who I haven’t seen since Christmas) she commented on my apparent weight loss), it is a lot to me for the following reason: I’ve never really lost any weight, just been slowly getting bigger or staying the same.
The spaces in between which I weighed myself were so distant between each other I wouldn’t have been able to track it anyway but still, this is the first sign of progress I’ve made with weight loss in all my adult life thus far.
And that’s a great feeling.
The thing is, I haven’t really done anything to do it, at least I’ve not actively had in my mind “right, I’m going to lose X amount of weight” so seeing it come off without doing anything other than being a bit stressed out with recent University stuff and other stuff in my life it has kind of inspired me to do two things; Continue reading
“Last night I had the strangest sensation.
Falling slowly but in actuality,
I was stationary, in the same location.”
Hello there! Just a quick update to tell you about a weird feeling I had last night whilst led in bed, I started to write that first sentence and the next too came to me so thought I would just put it in quotes and it could be a nice little ice breaker for this here blog post.
But yeah, I had a weird sensation last whilst led in bed (not the falling sensation which that short ditty refers to). It was the feeling that someone had climbed on to my bed and settled next to me. Let me help you picture the scene. Continue reading
Took this picture at a pub I regularly frequent, they have board games and books for people to read whilst they relax. Nice atmosphere…if you forget about the drunk idiots.
I felt this image was relevant to all of our interests.
Finished. Complete. Fully submitted.
My dissertation is finally complete and I handed it in today, or yesterday for me, today for most of you guys because you are American….
It clocked in at 9723 words…that’s a lot of words. I am surprised I am not all worded out which would be bad you know, considering I am a writer and words are my craft. I even got what I can only describe as a certificate for handing it in (they called it a receipt).
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It’s nearly here, the deadline of my dissertation!
Come Friday I will be free of the 10,000 word academic behemoth and I will be very glad to be done with it because….IT MEANS I CAN START WORKING ON DAWN AGAIN.
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