Journey Introduction

This is a journey of self-discovery. A journey to see if I really have what it takes to follow a dream: a dream to create something, and to have this thing affect viewers, for the better. Sure, this sounds egotistical. But what good is art if it has no impact. Every journey begins with the first step. A million ideas have swirled in and out of my head, each a plausible story or plot or scenario. Some I have jotted down on so many lost pieces of notepaper. Some I have played over and over while telling myself that this would make a great story, which I should write. So I wrote, but never completed any story: just sentences that led to nowhere. Then I met Professor Robert West. West taught me to write visually, and not struggle with perplexing prose. He taught me to write stage plays. With that, I found my medium: screenplays. And I wrote. And I research how to wrote better scripts. And I wrote some more. 146 pages! 27,000 words! It was an epic by novel standards. But I finished it. Then I did what all the experts said to do; I rewrote, and rewrote, and rewrote. 3 years later, I finished. I trimmed it down to 126 pages. To my novice eyes, it was perfect. Friends told me they liked it, but what do they know. I submitted it to a prestigious screenwriting contest. You’ll have to read the next blog to see how I did: