Resolution #64: Adapt All Of My Short Scripts Into Short Stories...
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Date: 3-5-2014
Due date: 3-5-2015
Resolution: Up until recently, when I adapted a few of my screenplays into one novel, I was only interested in screenwriting. Technique wise, I never thought of myself as a great writer. I feel confident in my concepts and content, but my dyslexic head jumbles words and I don't have a keen eye for typos. Writing nothing but screenplays gave me the safety net of a script being a blueprint and not the end product. Nobody is able to see my poor use of grammar when it plays out on the screen.
As I was writing the novel it was like a whole new world opened up to me. Standard prose gives you so much more freedom to explore any aspect of the story that you want. You can take an entire page to describe a room if you want to. You can play with structure and genre on a whim… unlike screenwriting… where the main focus is to follow a formula and only writing what can be seen on the screen.
I signed up for Wattpad to share Apartment Infinity, a series of shorts that I'm in the process of adapting to my second novel. I'm going to be posting new installments every other week for a year.
Every time I sign into Wattpad to see if there are any new comments or likes, I have an urge to add more stories to my My Works page.
So I will!!!
Result: #64: A Partial Success That I'm Going To Have To Consider Another Fail… Since… Partial Is Not All…
Story #1: Leap Year Gold…
Date: 3-6-2014
Story #2: What Would You Dew? AKA Sliding Doors II: The Unauthorized Sequel…
Date: 3-26-2014
Story #3: Borderline Reality…
Date: 4-8-2014
Click here to read my latest adaptation.
Story #4: School For Time…
Date: 5-20-2014
Click here to read my latest adaptation!
Update #5: The Conclusion…
Date: 3-5-2015
I was going at a pretty good pace to finish this resolution on time. Then I hit a phase where I was very discouraged by my non-blog writing and decided to take a break.
I think I was just burnt out from three consecutive years of being very productive on projects that have yet to see the light of day. I needed to take a break but not from writing in general, just writing fiction.
So, I took a break.
This break ended up lasting longer than I was expecting especially since it is still going on, to this day.
I'm currently in the process of getting back in the mood to write some fiction. Whether or not it happens this year, I do plan to complete this resolution and adapt all my short scripts into short stories in the near future.
