Recently, I’ve started writing again. Fiction writing. I spent a year writing fanfic and loving it. It allowed me the freedom to write for fun and just love characters, crazy storylines, and just to fall in love with the concept of writing as a whole. In a year, I wrote over 500,000 words and was HAPPY for it. It meant that I was coming back to me. I also realised something else- Not all my writing I wanted to do was meant for novelisation. Some was meant to be watched.

So I found myself needing to learn how to write film/tv scripts. I read many scripts, bought scriptwriting books, but finally, I realised I needed courses. I took some amazing webinars from @stage32, then I got accepted and received a scholarship from the online program from Tisch University. That was followed by not one, but TWO scholarships from the Sundance Collab- one for short film scriptwriting and the one I’m currently in- from outline to feature script.

I’m not going to tell you it’s not overwhelming in a way- it IS. But there’s a freedom in it too. I’m learning to see how some of the stories I struggled with during my writing career were because they were not meant for book, but for another medium altogether. In fact, one specific story, I’ve already begun reworking for two separate ways- tv and for feature– and it’s like this warm sunshine has opened up on me. I love it. It’s really fantastic when stories suddenly MAKE SENSE. Where subplots fall into place when before they just stood there.

I feel like I’ve come home. For the first time, I realise this is the writing I really have been wanting. Don’t get me wrong- I LOVE writing stories and books, but this– film, tv, streaming- there’s something so profoundly different to it for me– that it’s like I’m becoming the me I’ve always meant to become. Even my closest friends have noticed the difference. I’m more content within myself because of this writing. It’s so weird, yet it feels so… right.