Well, here’s my try at yet another new blog. This one will be permanent… I hope.
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March 1 was an auspicious date for me… that was when I officially began writing the first draft of my first professional screenplay. I can’t really go into much detail, but let’s just say that it’s exactly the kind of script that I love to write.
It was a daunting prospect, one that gave me a profound case of “blank page syndrome”, but at the same time, it was exhilirating.
For a week prior, I had thrown myself completely into the world of the characters that populate this story. I had come to know these bags of bones; their likes and dislikes, their attitudes, their personalities, their voices… even how they look. I made sure to understand them to such an extent that they are absolutely real in my head.
It got to the point where I was primed… psyched… to hit the keyboard and let these voices speak for themselves. And from the minute I typed “Fade In:”, that magical feeling of creation burst forth, like a warm glow emanating from my very essence. This world, the world I live in… the world of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, of Gloria Arroyo and Jun Lozada, of Steven Spielberg and Uwe Boll… this world faded to be replaced by, if even for a few hours, the world that I created.
The characters breathed, the floorboards creaked, the doors swung open, the wind rustled through the trees…
Exhilirating.
I love writing.
And I always will.
