Canadian Short Screenplay Competition (Evan Jobb blog post)

Today is my day off so I have some free time. I found the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition. There is this great blog from a writer Evan Jobb here:

http://www.screenplay-contest.com/blog/

The last few paragraphs of Sept. 14, 2011 is great. That's why I copy and pasted it here. Everything he says here, I totally agree with him. He talks about how he writes about one idea and a year later, he goes back to the idea and then changes it a lot and it only resembles the idea. That happens to me.

In The Vertex Fighter, it was originally supposed to be about a girl as the lead and as a fighter. Then it turned to a guy and there's some family drama added to it. I'm going to bold the things that I agree with in his post.

"This change in pace brings up a point about writing. Something that we all have to accept and live with. What you write is dependent on where you are currently in your life. It is dependent on your mood, your experiences, your friends, family, your inspiration, your job situation, your living conditions, and everything else around you at the time you put that pen to paper. Everything you think, feel, see or act upon affects your writing. And though at the time of planning this story I was in the mood to take on this gloomy tale with a serious tone and put my protagonist through this own personal hell, today I am not in the mood to do this without a bit of a smile here and there. My current state of mind has changed and so the story changes with me.

Any story I write at this moment would be monumentally different if I wrote it a year from now. And I just accept it. I wonder if it would be better or worse if I wrote it later, but in the end it would probably just be different. It is helpful though when going through your notebook to know that any idea you couldn’t develop at the time, may be seen in a different light later on. So keep writing down any idea you have, even if it may not be of much interest to you now because who knows how you will feel later. My 9th place script Near-sighted was written based on an idea I wrote a good year before I felt ready to write the script (and the script only barely resembled that earlier idea).

No matter when you write something, it will always be the story you want to write. My idea may have changed, but only because I have changed. In the end, the central idea of the story is still there, I have just decided to explore it in a different way. And in the end, I once again have a feature I want to write. Now, I just need some more cue cards…"

It so inspirational to read that blog post.

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To Blogger: This is not a spam blog

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I haven't written much here because I feel like you are going to delete it, but I want this blog to stay up. Thank you.