Typing

Making films is loads of fun. In fact telling stories is just an unavoidable part of me, it's what I do. Recently a friend during an introduction said that I write fantastic scripts, do I? Do I really? The simple answer is No, capital n.

Writing scripts is somewhat of a bother. Let me tell you a story and I can move you. I've made people laugh, or more illustratively, I've told people stories that have left them blinking tears from their eyes. But when it comes to writing or should I say typing I tend to falter, I procrastinate, I am right now in fact.

It should be easy, it is after all just taking dictation from my own mind of a story I've told myself probably hundreds of times. I know what the characters say, I know what they do, I know how they hold their bodies or the way they play with their hair or look at their hands. But it's just a struggle to get it down on the computer in a recognised form. I was telling a friend that I believed it was the way I interact with technology or it's lack of interaction with me, but I think it might actually be the way my mind works. When I'm telling a story I don't think about it, I barely even hear the words, it just flows. When I'm typing I have to think about it. I add a detail, then skip forward or backward to allow a change that results from that addition. I'll add a screen direction or think of the camera angle, that's really distracting as it has nothing to do with the story. Basically, I think in several directions at once as you can see from the following page... don't bother trying to read it, I can't.



Well, it's either that, or I listen too much to my little friend Jape.



Yes, that's probably the problem. Jape turns up everywhere.