Hmm, man this year has flown by. I mean maybe the fact that I’m actually documenting this year through this blog I’m actually feeling it pass by faster, but it puts loads of things into perspective, and you can actually see the time ticking away, and having that urge, and need to actually try and complete all these ideas. It’s a seriously interesting time in my house right now as I we’ve got someone new moving in today, and well the begining of the ‘school’ year is completely upon us.

In terms of writing, I know I haven’t written anything about that aspect in a while, mainly because I’ve actually been doing some. I bought a book a few weeks ago called how to learn to write screenplays. The main focus is on movies and television, however the nice thing is that it’s got loads of tips for writing a script of any sort. One of the most amazing pieces of advise I got was to write 500 words a day. No less, if inspiration hits then go on and write some more, but whatever happens FORCE yourself to sit down and write those 500 words. It’s much harder than you think, on the bad days, 500 words seem like an unreachable target, while on a good day 1000 words is too little. Whatever happens the target has to be met. I’ve been doing this for 13 days now, not missed a single session, which I’m pretty happy about actually. I didn’t feel it really but I’m pretty proud of what I’ve got written.

The other bit of advise is how I’ve been going about writing this story, which was ALL wrong. Write the entire plot, get the ideas and the characters fleshed out. Then once the first draft of your pplot is written edit if for a while, tweaking the rubbish and streamlining slightly, and then use this plot to write the script which should be pretty easy by this stage as most of the actual ideas have been taken out of your system. You don’t second guess things because you’ve already been through that process.

I don’t know when I’ll actually have it all finished by but what’s nice is that I can actually see some form of result which is always welcome. The best quote I got is ‘No writer likes to write; however they LOVE to have written.’ which pretty much sums it up really.

I was on site yesterday, I’m working on one of the Academies that the British government hopes to open in the not too distant future. As I was there I really felt the urge that I would love to be a teacher, even for a little while. Just to see that light bulv in kids heads go off would be brilliant to see. Maybe/hopefully some day when I’ve gotten all this writing and drawing and designing completely and utterly out of my system.