Feeling Lost (And The Silver Lining) – A General Update

So as you may or may not know, I have finished University and have moved home, back in with my dad and his girlfriend. Life is strange at the moment, I don’t really know my dad’s girlfriend and we have barely exchanged words so at the moment I feel a bit uncomfortable in the house I am supposed to now call “home”. His girlfriend aside I think moving back after 4 years of living away from the parents is hard enough.

So now, I have moved away from University, I’m super poor, and I have no more student loans incoming to get me out of my overdraft….so now what? Continue reading

What A Year…

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

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.

An Update (Including Script For New Monologue “Impressions”)

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

Looking Back, Was It All Worth It?

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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I. Am. Done.

Finished. Complete. Fully submitted.

Congrats Diss

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).

So what is next for me? Continue reading

Dear Amy – Draft 4

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Hey sorry again for the absence, been working away on my dissertation and doing a little more work on the Amy Draft which is due in on Tuesday so I have uploaded what is the fourth, and possibly final draft.

Not much has changed from Draft 3 bar some minor details and a small rewrite of the last segment of dialogue right at the end. Continue reading

Dear Amy – Draft 3

As mentioned earlier I received feedback today from my tutor and course mates about my monologue Dear Amy. Taking that on board, I redrafted the second draft into the new and improved shiny THIRD DRAFT. All that’s really changed is changing it from a letter to a video log but I think I managed it pretty well.

The next step based on any new feedback on this post will be to rejig the structure and how some of the tale is told but I just wanted to convert it mainly at the moment from the old “format” to the new one. I have linked the PDF below, I hope you guys enjoy. Continue reading

Dear Amy – Update

So there hasn’t be an update on either my monologue or film script recently hence the “Open Questions” that seem to have been a little hit and miss but the response to the previous ones have been good just no comments on the latest one yet really. Don’t know what went wrong there.

But onto the topic at hand. Dear Amy. My monologue.

I managed to get some more feedback on it today after “performing” it in class (read performing as – reading out nervously). The feedback was as follows: Continue reading