Some Thoughts On The Matter

 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 ...

 Hey! I know it doesn't look like it, but it's felt like  forever  since I've decided to sit down and write a blog post. It's kind of hard to believe that it was such a strong habit of mine that I was able to post frequently for a year. I've really enjoyed my more lax expectations when it comes to the scheduling for the blog, but it's also led to a new conundrum: what is worth blogging about?     Obviously, there is no requirement or standard that I've held my blogs to in the past. That was the point, after all: I just had to write something, anything, twice a week, and I'd be happy with it. But now that I'm going to be posting much less frequently, I do feel a strange sort of duty to have more of a qualitative approach to these blogs. For weeks, I haven't been able to come up with any ideas "worth writing" about, but finally, a thought came to mind, one so obvious that I literally smacked my own face for not having thought about it soo...

     It's kind of surreal to think about, but today marks the exact one year anniversary of me making this blog site. This blog sits in a sort of liminal temporal space in my mind: it feels like I've had the weekly pressures of posting to this site for almost forever, but at the same time it feels absurd to say that I've written 106 blog posts in the span of a year, with most trending above a thousand words each. Being conservative, that's at least  106,000 words written this year, which is more words than in the Hobbit book by  J.R.R. Tolkien. Man, you're telling me I could have written the Hobbit in a year instead of a bunch of blog posts that no one reads? What a waste of time...     I'm joking, of course. Even though comparing my estimate of how much I've written for this blog to classic books in literature is kind of breaking my brain (seriously, this blog has more words than 1984), writing a bunch of words was never really the driving motivation ...