Writing = Love

Writing is fantastic. If I've never mentioned it before, I'm saying it now. If I have mentioned it before, then I'm mentioning it again for the 100th time.

Here's how it is: when the other five writers and I are together, everyone says, "Hey, Writers." And I know it's incredibly cheesy, but this makes me so happy. Because my whole life, I've wanted to be a writer. And now I am. At least according to everyone around the Film School.

I used to be called, "waitress." "Hey, Waitress!" people would say, and wave to me to come get their checks or refill their coffee or get their heaping piles of breakfast. And I hated it, because I always thought, I have a name. But now I don't care if people call me something other than my name, as long as it's "writer." Lame, I know. But it's true.

It's the most incredible thing, being in film school for screenwriting, because this could be the only time in my life I don't have to do anything but write. I hope it isn't, but you never know. And, I mean, I'll be paying student loans until I'm 85. But there's something great about not having to do anything else besides sit down and write screenplays. It's basically the only thing I've ever wanted to do with my life, and it's fantastic.

So, in this fit of loving my life as a screenwriter (albeit, an unpaid, unsolicited, amateur screenwriter), I wrote my most recent feature in 8 days! We outlined for like 4 weeks, but I got the actual writing done in just over a week. I was so happy and excited, because that's the fastest I've ever written a feature before. Now I know I can do it.

Fast writing. I think that's a pretty marketable skill to have.

My feature is a family/action/fantasy story, and I'm super excited about it. I've probably said it before, but it feels like the script I've always been meant to write. So hopefully other people think it's as good a story as I do. I feel super confident about it, which is strange for me, because usually I don't want anybody reading my stuff. But I want everybody to read this one.

So, yeah, film school is still incredible. And in just a handful of weeks, I'll be a Second Year. And that, my friends, is absolutely insane.