Screenwriting Classes finished - Overview blogpost · 5:09am Apr 10th, 2018
EXT. HIGHER REALM - SPLENDID GARDENS - DAY
A beautiful, idyllic garden. The one place in the universe where absolutely everything is perfect.We see angelic men and women walking around in white garb. There are young children, too. It is what we all imagine 'heaven' to be like. Perfectly perfect.INT. HIGHER REALM - IMPECCABLE FOYER -
And yet, something is not perfect. The voice of a male emissary belting out orders like a sergeant while children peer curiously through the door. This is AERES, and sitting before him, attentive but amused, is SOPHIE. Listening in, we discover four facts: they are beings called emissaries, their boss is the Goddess of Life, today is Sophie's first solo-mission in the Middle Realm, and that no matter what, Sophie cannot screw up as Aeres’s reputation as her mentor is at stake ("Repeat after me. I won't screw up," Aeres says. "I won't screw up," Sophie drones on, playfully rolling her eyes).
So, there it is, the first few paragraphs of my final project for my screenwriting classes. Some of you will find some familiar terms, and this is because I am totally taking Death's Stolen Diamonds and making it into its own thing.
There's a lot I want to say, and there's also not much I want to say.
Looking back, I learned a lot. It was hard, hard work, and I suffered a lot emotionally and mentally, but I'm glad of what I managed to achieve in the end. I have a really solid story, which will one day be a really solid Visual Novel or Comic. For the first time in years, I'm actually excited to do original work. It's nice to feel like I really put effort into something, and to see that it did pay off. I also want to take a moment to thank the incredible Carabas for being my rock during this entire process, and for being unrelenting in his pursuit of helping me. He's a total sweetheart, and I adore him, and you should all go read his stuff.
You know what, though? Tomorrow's the one year anniversary of my move to Los Angeles, and... and I've only just realized I don't want to be a screenwriter. Kind of a bummer considering I moved to LA from Mexico to become one, but I've finally accepted that I've been chasing a dream I imposed on myself out of expectations, not out of a burning desire to do so. Surprisingly, I'm okay with that. Does this mean I regret the class? Not really! I learned a lot, as I said, and I'm better off knowing this isn't my path than continuing to wonder if it is. Does it mean I regret moving here? Hell no.
I'm not scared of the future for the first time in forever. It's a weird feeling, to just take life as it comes. Actually, it's more that it's a weird feeling to just do whatever makes me happy without caring about anything else. I think it's a lesson I needed.
I might try screenwriting again sometime in the future. Right now, I just want to do my own thing, which I think is write my silly fics. And maybe take cooking classes. Learn to make something besides pasta.
I'm really excited about fics, though. There's still a long road ahead, but I'm excited to implement everything I learned in class in order to tell more compelling stories. I think I might write a very silly fic first, however. My brain needs to unwind, and it's been a real long time since I last wrote a fic that had no other purpose but Rarity and Twilight being dorks in love who banter and tease each other.
God, I'm so tired, though. I might do a more thorough blogpost in the future, but for now, this is all I can really do. It's been a real long 5 weeks. I feel good and I feel at peace for once--accomplished, I guess?--but I think I need a long mental nap.
Thanks as always for your support through the ups and downs and in-betweens.
- Mono <3
I’d love to see a silly You fic.
I think that’d be wonderful.
That's an adorable pic.
Congrats, Mono!
Carabas is great, and so are you.
as an addendum, the real hard part of this entire thing was coming to terms with the fact that one day i'll have to let go of fashion horse and work with main characters that are not her and honestly what kind of a life is one where you can't write stories about Rarity 24/7, i ask you
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But now you can write an even better fashion horse, more fashionable and horsey. You did it for Rarity
You.
Me.
Bingewatching cooking shows together.
Let's do this shit.
Congrats and good job!
I would so watch this. And I would be picturing Rarity the entire freaking time.
Silly stories about silly horses doing silly horse things?
Sounds wonderfully silly. I'm all for it, and glad you survived.
Congrats on finishing the class! We're absolutely looking forward to that silly fic of yours, as well as all of your future content, be it horse words or original work.
Wholesome monoblog is wholesome.
Great to hear you're feeling good about the future, hun. And yee, Carabas is v pure.
It took me three years of classes to figure out that I hate programming, so you’re actually working quite a bit faster than I am!
Here's to not being scared! :D
Also to not giving up! You did a good. :)
Good for you!
I'm really glad that it was a net good experience. The whole--how then shall we live?--the question of what comes next haunts me a lot these days, but some times peace with the future in small doses is attainable. You seem to have found that peace for a bit.
I'm so glad to hear things are working out for you.
I think that a lot of life's decisions come in the form of knowing what you don't want rather than knowing what you do what, and the former is just as good as the latter! It sounds like you had some monumental experiences overall these past few weeks, and I'm glad you feel you're better for it!
Happy to have you back at fim fic!
You're a wonderful person and many, many people are glad you're here.
Have fun. Make ze magicks. I am totally down for baggage-free Raritwi banter. :3
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HOLY SHIT HOLD ONTO THAT FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAN
That confidence doesn't come cheap or often
It's great to hear that you're happy with writing what you want. Looking forward to more silly stories.
Also nice that you know better what you want to do now. Maybe figuring that out isn't as impossible as I thought after all
I approve!