GENESIS

"Yeah, right: who you'll be in twenty years – who I'll be in twenty years – all has something to do with how we respond today."

It’s been a few days since a display of it all has occurred: the desire, action, afterthought, and now – the collective analysis of my passion for cinema. Since fall of 2014, I have been writing every day. Before then, including that year, I had written at how I felt – now it is a priority. As of thus far, I have completed the following: a rough draft of the screenplay about my bicycle trip from LA to Seattle when I was homeless, the book about my bicycle trip (Fog On Fire [Release Date: June 21]), a rough draft of a novella, an essay on cinema (Seventh Art [see last blog post]), a short screenplay for that novella I mentioned, a feature film screenplay, and am now working on the cleaner draft of that screenplay about my bicycle trip.

All this goes to say that my focus has honed in on a relative skill that my heart has been stirred for (relative because I want to be a director). After I had completed that short screenplay for a novella I wrote, I was looking for a new project to endeav upon. I had just made the transition from reading books and writing books to reading scripts and writing scripts. I would like to focus on that feature film screenplay I last completed. The concept was given to me by my manager at the fuel center who majored in English and has a wife who directs the theater. I was so rambunctious about the concept that I went home from work on Saturday and started to write. I wrote all through Sunday and was finished after noon on Monday. Less than 48 hours after I had begun: I had written a feature film – a rushed one at that.

My afterthought of it all goes to address how much work I put into something that, at the time, did not need so much put into it (maybe it did). I learned a lot about my ability in a constraint of time, as well about the requirements that such a task requires. In that time, I found a lot of my waking hours dedicated to the project – which put aside a lot of other restful things I could have been doing. With what I know now of the process, I hope to spread that same zeal out for long periods of time (given I remain before deadlines) to make the most of writing slots and reflections in between as the story grows.