About

Over the years I have tried to start many blog. My most successful one was my very first one, My Journey to Become a Filmmaker. At that time, blogs were not very common, and if you were to search for “How to be a filmmaker,” my blog would show up in the top 5 results.

Since then, I’ve tried to do a traveling blog, but I don’t travel much. I’ve also created a VLOG on My Journey to Become a Filmmaker. I pushed myself to create at least 10 episodes. And while they were fun to do, they were very labor intensive and any reward that Youtube gave me, they quickly took away.

2018 hasn’t been kind to me, but I haven’t given up. In January I was laid off from my job that I had been the Sr. Designer/Photographer/Video of for 3 years. While searching for my next career, I had been toying with the idea of writing a script based off of a true story.

In my abundance of downtime I had since being laid off, I starting writing this script. Months of research and writing, I was able to complete the first draft of my script. All 154 pages of it. Ironically and maybe faithfully, I was hired by an agency that I had sent my resume to right after I was laid off. They contacted me at a point where I was nearly finished with my script. During the interview process and waiting period, I hunkered down and got my first draft done.

9 months after being laid off I was fully employed again and had a full-length first draft of my script completed.

The reason for this blog isn’t necessarily to discuss my script, no, it’s to help me become a better writer. It’s one thing that I’ve somehow been good at, or at least been told I’ve been good at. During all the standardised tests we took back in school, I always seemed to place in the 90th-95th percentile of the entire state of Illinois for my writing. Don’t ask me how. All copies of my writing are probably gone, as they were always hand-written.

Just because I’ve always tested well with writing, it doesn’t mean I’m a perfect writer. My spelling has always been sub-par. Thank goodness for Google’s built-in spell check. That doesn’t mean that the occasional misspelled word, or improper use of their, there, or they’re aren’t slipped in. I almost always catch those if I re-read what I just wrote, but the keyword is “if.”

In the eyes of the state of Illinois, writing seemed to have been judged differently than if spelling and grammar were also included. I think they looked at the story as a whole.

What you’ll see on this blog will be a whole collection of posts. One collection I’m hoping will be exercises in story creation. I bought a couple books at a discount store that give you writing prompt to create short stories from. One problem I have is adding creative details, so I’m hoping this will help, and instead of just keeping them on my computer, I’ll be putting them here in this blog for all to see.

With that said, since I’ve started this new blog, I’ll probably just use it to upload things in my current life. I’ve tried to get away from using Facebook. Facebook seems to be all about sharing new articles and cute animal videos anymore. So instead of forcing all my friends to see what I find enjoyable, they can come here, and in the process I hope new friends will visit too.

So that’s what this blog will be all about in a few nutshells. Lets just see how dedicated I am to sticking with this. This site may be dead before I even start it. We’ll see.

Enjoy,
Dustin