Some Thoughts On The Matter

    After October, I really started to take into account the small things in my life that provided me with stability during such a strenuous time in my college life. My friends who would check up on me, the simple but filling meals I would make for myself after a long day, and the routines that gave me something to stick to. One of the most important routines I kept was journaling how my day went, every single night at 11:45 PM. I took it up as a writing challenge for this academic year for fun, but it wasn't until I was reflecting on the past month that I realized how important it's become to me and my mental health. Before I tell you to pick it up for yourself, I figured you might want to hear about the background info on why I started and what sort of benefits I got out of it so far!     For context, I've issued myself a challenge every year since freshman year of high school, which tend to focus on different routines. They don't always have to relate to writing, ...

    Hey there! At the time of writing this, I've essentially finished up most of my FSUFilm application work (which is what I wrote about for the last three months), with only my personal statement remaining. But if you're getting a little tired of me blogging about my film school application, worry not! I have been keeping busy with plenty of other responsibilities and side quests that all came crashing down on me during the month of October. Among friends, I had a pretty grisly name for this month, but for the sake of this blog, I'll be referring to this October as Hell Month 2025 .     So what exactly made October so hellish for me? Let's start with the "needs" first, meaning responsibilities that I was required to attend to.      I'll start off with my Kudzu responsibilities— in terms of actually managing the team meetings, the weekly readings, and being a team leader, I was having a great time! I haven't really talked about how my new position as ...

 Finally, I have reached the last writing sample prompt for my application to the MFA Screenwriting program at FSU Film. It's taken many months of planning, drafting, and writing to get to this point, but now I'm finally ready to tackle my final script for the application... which happens to be the first prompt assigned. Hopefully I wasn't supposed to do this in a specific order! The prompt goes as follows: A two-page non-dialogue scene about a person trying to kill a spider in his/her home.      Immediately, my instinct with this piece is to lean comedic. After all, the first thing that comes to mind when I read the prompt is the mental image of one of the Three Stooges trying to kill a spider in a kitchen or something, resulting in much physical comedy and gags where the person gets hurt and the spider gets out without a scratch. And as fun as writing a Three Stooges sketch sounds, I have to assume that if it was my first thought, it was also everyone else's first ...

 Hello again! I've taken a month to take some time off (it is the summer after all) and start cooking a new idea for a story! The looming expectations of my application to FSU Film's Screenwriting program seem to dominate every minute where I'm not busy with school work or other activities, so I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and work on an original story for a little bit while also tackling Writing Sample 3 of the MFA Application, which says: "A sample of original creative work, such as a short story, short play or screenplay of up to 5 pages."     Seems like a lot of wiggle room this time! I'm actually really looking forward to writing something for FSU Film that isn't borne from a restrictive prompt. While I do think that limits force writers to be more creative, and I feel pretty proud of my last script about microwaves, I do want to write a script that gives me a chance to flex my more creative situational imagination instead of dealing...

 Hey! For those who aren't aware (or haven't been subjected to my nonstop talking about it), I'm planning on applying for the FSU Film MFA Screenwriting program! This is a really ambitious challenge to take on, but I can't help but feel like it's the right path to following my dreams of working as a screenwriter. As a part of the application for the program, each applicant is asked to submit three creative materials, which are essentially short scripts which must follow a given prompt, each with their own limitations and requirements. After skimming through the instructions for each prompt, my head was brimming with ideas for potential short stories to write about, but I figured it would also be cool to record my creative process while writing each script into a blog for each creative submission, since it would be a great insight into how I think and write when I'm working on a project (and also it'll help pace myself through writing a bunch of scripts back ...

      Hey! It will come as no secret to those who read through most of my blog or who know me personally, but for those unaware, I am a really, really  big fan of the game DELTARUNE . In the four years that had passed since the release of Chapter 2, I had fallen in and out of love with the game a few times, and I had developed just as many thoughts, predictions, and opinions on it as the community had. The excitement of not one, but two  installments releasing simultaneously was super exciting, and when an official release date had been confirmed (June 4th, 2025) I had gathered enough junk food and snacks to last me a few days, ensured that all of my obligations were in order, and said goodbye to the outside world for the next few days. After four years of anticipation, DELTARUNE  had my full, undivided attention.      Unfortunately, there's no way of describing my behavior on that day that doesn't end in me looking like a huge nerd. As ...