Daydream On Steroids

Recently my creative juices have been flowing and since I never knew I had creative juices I had no idea what to do with the mess. Try telling your dad that the huge white stain on the couch is “creative juices”. I digress. For the last month or so I have been having these epically vivid dreams from which I constantly wake up and think “That would make an awesome movie.” I even have dream “sequels” that are not so much sequels but a continuation of the initial dream. I sit in silence and images come to me. Stories I know and love told in vivid detail or the occasional original idea that plays out like a daydream on steroids.

All of this is very new to me. I mean, sure, I have attempted to write before and my dream is to become some shade of journalist. Putting original ideas to paper have never been my defining trait, of this I’m sure. So far I’m most recognized for a comic I doodled on the back of a divider in my folder about the sweet Asian lady at the gas station turning into a ninja and stabbing me because I accidentally made fun of her accent… not exactly an Alan Moore here. I have the skill. I’m a borderline grammar nazi and my vocabulary is vast. What I lack is the talent or perhaps the knowledge. In school, we were always taught how to put the pen to paper and produce a bland representation of what our idea was at the time but no one actually took the time to tell you what to do when you had a genuinely original idea and wanted to paint striking image for the reader.

So, you either had to have talent or you had to steal the writing style of your favorite author. Bah. Screw the story, I want to write a screenplay! What? Oh, that has an even more meticulous set of rules? Son of a bitch! Perhaps you see my dilemma now. I have a head full of ideas and no real clue as to how to get them out. So, I’ll play it by ear. I have a notebook that already has a few ideas scribbled in it and have even started working on a screenplay (if you want details, you have to care enough to ask me personally) and have started writing one of my more recent buff daydreams down (see previous parenthetical). You’ll definitely hear more about my struggles to be artistic here, so stay tuned! Who knows, maybe you’ll see a Shining-esque descent into madness!

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