No, nothing bad happened. I'm not going to kill myself. I know, I just let down my readership/reader down... again.
I've talked a little about my notebook, how I like having it, but it is just a piece of paper for me to write on. Blank paper usually has smaller value compared to the opposite. I am coming to the conclusion of finishing notebook #3, as usual the notebook more or less takes a year to fill up. I am fourteen pages away from finishing what I started from May 2011 and will no doubt conclude in May 2012.
It is kind of cool, of the past year I think ideas for stories has doubled my last list, which is pretty shitty. I haven't really been writing, just note taking. Note taking is neccesary for me to build the stories, despite not really writing any for almost a year.
The notebook is neccesary because I take influence from another story (The Shield, IT Crowd, The West Wing) and transplant them into one of my stories. Effectively I use these projects as templates, and I sometimes build characters, setting and so forth of these projects. From my note taking and my mind constantly being ON about writing, I slowly begin to deviate from my templates.
So now I am bringing my own ideals to the story and it just organically grows away from what it is descended from, this is not any asexual reproduction that we are forced to consume, this is creative sex between my imagination and something that is already out there.
It helps give me a sense of where my projects would be in the marketplace. This is where the fun begins because at a certain point I won't need these projects as inspiration any more, and I find that in my head and on paper, I can define these tales succintely.
Not only this, but I do not want to put out half baked ideas. I derailed my feature film script dissertation for uni, by lack of sleep (but we're not talking about that) and I got caught up in trying to figure out how to write a TV pilot.
The pilot was okay, but rushed, slightly generic and needed some time to slumber prior to its release. I try not to rush story, because that means it could become boring at certain points. When a film or TV show is on, your mind must be racing with it. Your mind should have all sorts of thoughts about what might occur next. That doesn't happen often enough in my opinion.
Something that caught my attention whilst watching yesterday: Cabin in the Woods
Something that didn't catch my attention whilst watching yesterday: Dark Star
Last week I was scouring my usual messageboard reading the writing threads, advice about writing threads and ask the professionals threads. One fantastic bit of planning I came across was, if you are stuck in what to do next in your story, write ten possible outcomes. From that pick the one which you think sounds best, don't be afraid to write some stupid possibilities. I'm using this tactic for fleshing out my characters, trying to figure out their backstory by writing above them "why is ---- a dick" "what are --- trying to hide" and it has been a huge improvement. Usually the ten choices kind of start to mesh together to build different layers to this person and this was unexpected.
I think this is a new constant in my approach to writing. Which is nice.
Plus I get to buy a new notebook, nothing moleskin and nothing you can buy from a stationary shop.
Bye.
Thursday 26 April 2012
Monday 16 April 2012
I have nothing to say anymore
I usually write a blog post a month.
These are moments of my text that breaths catharsis and distill a sense of meditation in every reader (all one of you). But, deep down, we know that's not fucking true.
Sure, I can do a ranting blog. That would mean, I would need to take a break from my exile from the world outside my door, that is asking a lot.
I could write in a vague, abstract way of what I am doing, or might not. I'm probably lying. "Hey, I'm getting closer to my target" to "oh fuck sticks, I'm not getting closer to my target" all the way through purposefully not mentioning my endgame, because quite honestly THERE ISN'T ONE.
And another thing, who the fuck are all you people from Asia and Europe and Australia, and why are you reading my blog. Now I know that blogs are open for anyone, the question is why bother reading mine.
In my last blog post, it was about Lovefilm. Something is very broken with that. There is no structure to this blog and I might let it continue that way.
As of right now, I have fuck all to say. Now, I know you all want my opinion on a 3d projection of Tupac. I would have preferred a plasticine version, we shall never talk on this subject ever again.
I want to be a professional writer, but lack the ability to consistently follow a word with another word so that a story emerges.
Before I finish this detailed, yet slightly ambiguous post I have one more thing to say.
The Word of the day is Hegemony.
Who the fuck in Singapore wants to read this shit?
These are moments of my text that breaths catharsis and distill a sense of meditation in every reader (all one of you). But, deep down, we know that's not fucking true.
Sure, I can do a ranting blog. That would mean, I would need to take a break from my exile from the world outside my door, that is asking a lot.
I could write in a vague, abstract way of what I am doing, or might not. I'm probably lying. "Hey, I'm getting closer to my target" to "oh fuck sticks, I'm not getting closer to my target" all the way through purposefully not mentioning my endgame, because quite honestly THERE ISN'T ONE.
And another thing, who the fuck are all you people from Asia and Europe and Australia, and why are you reading my blog. Now I know that blogs are open for anyone, the question is why bother reading mine.
In my last blog post, it was about Lovefilm. Something is very broken with that. There is no structure to this blog and I might let it continue that way.
As of right now, I have fuck all to say. Now, I know you all want my opinion on a 3d projection of Tupac. I would have preferred a plasticine version, we shall never talk on this subject ever again.
I want to be a professional writer, but lack the ability to consistently follow a word with another word so that a story emerges.
Before I finish this detailed, yet slightly ambiguous post I have one more thing to say.
The Word of the day is Hegemony.
Who the fuck in Singapore wants to read this shit?
Tuesday 3 April 2012
Oh LoveFilm...
I think this is my new found addiction. It is cheaper than buying dvds and blu-rays at this point as I did seem to buy a lot before. This just means I can watch all those things I didn't want to spend money on. So I now have 220 dvd and blu-ray titles in my rental que, I'd be saying goodbye to life if I had one.
So anyway, the first two blu-rays sent to me were Valhalla Rising and Red Hill. So why were these my first two choices?
Well, Valhalla Rising was directed by Nic Winding Refn (director of Drive and Bronson) The bracketed films, I'd previously watched and liked/loved them. So judging from the trailer of Valhalla Rising, Refn would be gorging on some Peckinpah bloodlust. That is only for a little bit, the production is fantastic but it does have a similarity to Drive in the silent protagonist. Sadly I was actually bored, I understood almost all that happened. Don't go in thinking of Drive. The violence was awesome though.
Red Hill. The only other Aussie Western I've seen was The Proposition, unfortunately it's been a while since I saw that, I seem to recall lending it to a friend and never getting it back. But anyway
It is rude to call Red Hill generic, but it is definitely a paint by numbers job transplanted into a slightly different locale. That is not a bad thing, I really enjoyed it. It was predictable, but I like watching it. I had fun watching a film. That is something that as we grow older, the thing we forget about. We want logic and realism. I want films to be fun as well. There were some unrealistic moments, but at the same time worth a watch.
So anyway, the first two blu-rays sent to me were Valhalla Rising and Red Hill. So why were these my first two choices?
Well, Valhalla Rising was directed by Nic Winding Refn (director of Drive and Bronson) The bracketed films, I'd previously watched and liked/loved them. So judging from the trailer of Valhalla Rising, Refn would be gorging on some Peckinpah bloodlust. That is only for a little bit, the production is fantastic but it does have a similarity to Drive in the silent protagonist. Sadly I was actually bored, I understood almost all that happened. Don't go in thinking of Drive. The violence was awesome though.
Red Hill. The only other Aussie Western I've seen was The Proposition, unfortunately it's been a while since I saw that, I seem to recall lending it to a friend and never getting it back. But anyway
It is rude to call Red Hill generic, but it is definitely a paint by numbers job transplanted into a slightly different locale. That is not a bad thing, I really enjoyed it. It was predictable, but I like watching it. I had fun watching a film. That is something that as we grow older, the thing we forget about. We want logic and realism. I want films to be fun as well. There were some unrealistic moments, but at the same time worth a watch.
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