Who I Am
I am old enough to know that I am mortal,
Young enough that I cannot imagine death.
I am kind enough to forgive an enemy,
Cruel enough to kill a friend.
I live eight minutes from the sun and one second from the moon
In a house where the difference between freezing and burning is a single staircase.
I was born when the sun was neither up nor down,
And since then have held a special love for the dawn and the dusk.
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Yeah, I feel like I'm at least getting something out of this class. It's not at all the same as writing prose, I keep adding too much stage direction because I know exactly how I want to see it and such, but you're really not supposed to do that. But It's really cool, it's unique, and I'm surrounded by cool people. I really don't feel up to par to actually being there, but I'm dazzling my professor by giving him my rough draft of my novel to sort of help me with, and he actually likes it. I feel somewhat redeemed for my suckish screenwriting skills. But in learning screenwriting, it's helping me think of the audience and the way everything's percieved in ways I hadn't had to think about. I already sort of knew that two people can read the same character differently, but the magnatude of that is really amazing--we read each other's scripts out loud. My version of how the character's voice sounds in my head was soooo different from how they were read, and I described it exactly as I thought about it. It's just so interesting, and looking at other's work too, it's watching things come to life like you just couldn't with straight prose. I really think it's helping me, even if I never write another screenplay. And it's definetly good pacing practice, as well as figuring out scene order and such.
Yeah, my tendancy to procrastinate would lend itself to believing that's what my character pages are, but it really isn't. I was having trouble focusing on my actual work since I did one large straight read-through, and the damn thing's 400 pages, exactly. This let me take the step back that I needed to see things more objectively again, and I'm actually editing things so my understanding of the characters shines through better, because before I wasn't even sure about some of these characters. It's not so bad for me to go from writing character profiles to actual writing. Half the time I write as if they're speaking them.
I suppose I'm sorry for your blockage, but I think it speaks more to your intelligance and ability to see things as more than "let's talk about how amazing it is to have half vampires." Without you guys that's kinda what it turned into. >.< Did you ever finish anything with your vampires?
And in all honesty, Aliyssa's vampires still bother me. >.<
Does "you'd rather be out" mean this is a self-imposed out or you were blocked? I'm pretty sure most people were blocked (I was, Hazagaarn (whoa, totally screwed up that spelling), Seth Regente, sqrttt, etc). That place was completely not the same though after people got outted, all the interesting people just were gone, y'know?