and now you see im a better person than i ever was before
and you moved on and now your wondering if you hit the floor

So

I talked about my blog at work today and I realized I have not blogged in a long time. So an update is in order. My writing has been coming along I'm about 60 pages in my screenplay and while I believe it's garbage I think it could eventually turn into something decent. I'm putting ideas on paper. In another 30 or so pages when I finish act 3 it will be time to polish the stone into a gem. It probably wont be a diamond but I'll take quartz my first time out. I'm also writing wha started out as a short story but is looking like it may end up as a novella by the time I'm done. I really got into the main character and I just took off with it. I actually have thought recently about writing two more stories based on the same character and two different parts of his life. We will see. I am writing more, almost everyday now which is something I havn't been able to say in a while. It feels good.

aaron

so i did it

I took the plunge I put my first words on paper in final draft. I outlined act one last time and i let it sit in my head for a bit but I got down on paper what equates to about one and half minuets of a movie. How exciting.

Outline

So I bought Syd Fields book the screenwriters workbook and I told my self I would work through all the steps and that was how I would write my screen play. However I have found that It is much easier for to shift the order I do these things in and take out some of the more vague free association writing like exercise one. I think these could be useful for someone who has a brand new idea and hasn't really fleshed it out but I have been thinking about my story for a few months now and have a good concept of where it starts and where it ends.


Anyways

This post is to celebrate me finishing the outline for Act one of my screenplay Compulsive. Its not very interesting to read so I'm not going to post it up here. When I do the character bios I might post those but for the most part this warm up stuff wont be posted. I will post parts of the screenplay but I'm still at least a week or two out from actually writing that.


Thats all I got.
Aaron

P.S. I may start doing videos again I dunno.

writing again

It has been a long time since I have written something. I mean like a beginning middle and end story. I started writing that short story a couple of posts ago but never came back to it. I use to love writing. I would spend hours writing stories one lines songs poems and just bull shit stream of conscious rants. I am going to start writing again. Im trying out a completely new medium the screen play. I have always wanted to write one and I just decided I am going to do it. Since I have never been taught how I bought a book that gives advice and exercises to get it started. I was going to do the first exercise today before work but I have to go in 2 hours earlier than planned so I will try to do it after. Im not sure anyone really reads this but if you do drop a comment or something. I will be posting bits and pieces of what I throw together as I work through this book so if you enjoy it let me know if you think it blows let me no.

-aaron

when we were young we wanted to be old

because we wanted to feel real pain so we could feel real joy

not just playing power rangers

but actually feeling things

feeling so good it hurts

lets move to where the sunrises
cause i cant be left in the dark

Opening

I started writing a short story today in between classes. I have had the idea brewing in my head for a few days now. I am starting the story off with a long monologue by one of the two main characters. His name is yet to be determined. I figured I would post this on here instead of emailing it to myself to use at home. This way if anyone happens along it they can tell me what they think.



I am no story teller. I am simply a relentless observer of human nature.


“I have no empathy for mindless day thinkers. The murderers, the arsonist, the thief, and the liar, I have empathy for them. They are the ones who deserve salvation. We have lost the idea of human nature. We have decided to shut it out and replace it with a romanticized view point of who we are and where we come from. Since Adam and Eve were shunned from the garden it was the intention of our maker for humans to be a self regulating force. We lack all qualities of who we were created to be and so we resent ourselves. We have been taught to ignore our urges and go back on all things instinctual. We have outgrown humanity. We are by nature savages after all. Fighting for power, but we have replaced war with words, rifles with rhetoric, and spears with sports. We live in a culture obsessed with sports. Where do you think this fascination comes from? We crave battle. It is in our genes to do battle with others yet we are taught from infancy that fighting is wrong so we allow overgrown men on fields and in stadiums to fight for us. We are jerking-off our brains need for violence with dumbed down pseudo- brutal games, and for some it doesn’t work. So yeah I feel sorry for the guy sitting in the room with a needle labeled death because the man acted on a basic instinct to prove he was fit for survival, that’s just fucking human.”

technorati claim

QX55R7PEARAE

Vlog

I just finished editing my first vlog. it is a weird concept you talk to yourself in front of a camera and no one watched you. anyways it should be up on youtube soon...I'm having some trouble with the upload. I'll post a link when it is finished.

Sorry about the absence it won't happen again.

Aaron