Blog 18 - What I Plan to Do With Writing

I've had an online journal for a very long time. I was always up-to-date with it, but after a while, my ability to keep it timely faded into obscurity. I tried to keep a written journal for one year....every day there was an entry, hand written, with little mementos from the days....receipts, coupons, movie tickets, flower petals,, etc. I've always held onto mementos though...bottled drops of rain from my 18th birthday....y'know...simple things....I am trying to become more persistent with the online journal though. What I wanted to work on in this class with my writing was my ability to detail events and scenarios. With fiction, you can grab the reader quite easily with all the fake stuff you're allowed to write about. With non-fiction however, you’ll have to turn a sometimes mundane experience into something quite extraordinary. This was hard for me in the beginning of the class but after a while I was able to develop a craft for myself to grab the reader easier with a good use of adjectives.
I have no plans for participating in a writers group. I'm a loner at heart with basically everything. I don't do clubs or conferences or meetings. There is no "I" in team, but there is one in "equipo"....and that is Spanish for team. I do understand that if I were to write for movies and etc. I would have to work with others, but that would most likely be in sense of moderation.

I want to be involved in film as a producer, director and a screenplay writer. Writing is a must obviously for writing scripts, and being a good writer helps the actors who have to read your work and act it out. How you convey what you want on the screen in words affects the final product.

Things I want to write that won't benefit me are probably just personal essays and literary journalism about the world and people and life and such. On my website, www.thecshop.org, I am constantly writing entries regarding our exploits. That's life.

I don't really expect any of my writing to get published by big name companys like J.K Rowling. I don't think I'll sit there and try to enter a contest or anything like a publication to get my work on there. If it happens it just happens.