I never thought I'd try again. Getting here was just about getting here and concentrating on what I had come here to do. But getting back on the application horse? Not something I had anticipated doing. And yet here I am, writing personal statements and statements of purpose, doing my research on programs that include teaching this time (something I shied away from earlier) and are fully funded and where the costs of living are a little lower. All this and balancing writing a massive project I've undertaken and will be living with for quite a bit longer than expected, writing a self-reflexive essay detailing why I've chosen to write about what I have along with my "process" and serving as the Editor-in-Chief of a budding cross-Atlantic literary publication. Of course, I wouldn't have it any other way. I couldn't. I'm coming into this process with an MA (God Willing) under my belt and experience gained along with one year in an academic setting. You never know how much that matters when you've been out of the institutional mindset for seven years. Graduating at 19 has its perks though because you still have a ton of time while you're still in your 20s to pick up another masters degree.
Picking up on a concept I've talked about earlier: everything I've done so far has brought me here. Over the weekend, I saw The Adjustment Bureau which as films go, wasn't as bad as it could've been. The idea was one that briefly tenured around the tenuous argument between determinism and the illusion of free will, vs free will and the illusion of determinism. A lot could've been done with that concept aside from making it into a romantic story, although if they had to center it around that, it could really have been done a lot better. But oh well, this is Hollywood. What can you do, right? :)
A quick Google Search tells me that the film was actually based on a short story which brings me to the time honored phrase of course it was. Any truly original concept, aside from Nolan's Inception, was based on a novel or a shorty story or a novelette or a play or maybe in a far off realm, a poem. No original Hollywood picture with a mindblowing concept is ever quite truly "original", even if it is original to the screen. Everything starts from the page of something, even if it's a screenplay. Kinda makes you realize the importance of writers, huh?
That's what I'm here for. If for nothing else, than to remind you of the place of writers as the lowest and perhaps most original performers on the totem pole.
The dreams of screenplay and playwriting are for the most part, over, even while I may play with bending the difference in my work. The grand dreams of pushing for artistic and creative independence and ubiquity are still very much on my mind but the means of getting there are perhaps more practical than the idealistic fantasies they were before. Don't get me wrong: I still dream about things; I don't think I could lose that part of me if I tried and I've never really tried that hard to begin with.
But now, I need to leave and continue writing Gray. There are always things to do.
:)
Picking up on a concept I've talked about earlier: everything I've done so far has brought me here. Over the weekend, I saw The Adjustment Bureau which as films go, wasn't as bad as it could've been. The idea was one that briefly tenured around the tenuous argument between determinism and the illusion of free will, vs free will and the illusion of determinism. A lot could've been done with that concept aside from making it into a romantic story, although if they had to center it around that, it could really have been done a lot better. But oh well, this is Hollywood. What can you do, right? :)
A quick Google Search tells me that the film was actually based on a short story which brings me to the time honored phrase of course it was. Any truly original concept, aside from Nolan's Inception, was based on a novel or a shorty story or a novelette or a play or maybe in a far off realm, a poem. No original Hollywood picture with a mindblowing concept is ever quite truly "original", even if it is original to the screen. Everything starts from the page of something, even if it's a screenplay. Kinda makes you realize the importance of writers, huh?
That's what I'm here for. If for nothing else, than to remind you of the place of writers as the lowest and perhaps most original performers on the totem pole.
The dreams of screenplay and playwriting are for the most part, over, even while I may play with bending the difference in my work. The grand dreams of pushing for artistic and creative independence and ubiquity are still very much on my mind but the means of getting there are perhaps more practical than the idealistic fantasies they were before. Don't get me wrong: I still dream about things; I don't think I could lose that part of me if I tried and I've never really tried that hard to begin with.
But now, I need to leave and continue writing Gray. There are always things to do.
:)
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nyc! :)
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