THE PEN AND PAPER WITH THE CREATIVE MIND IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SOFTWARE

Who says you can't face your fear and possibly come out better?

Well, like i indicated in my blog earlier, it was certainly a very hard challenge to face everything that will question my project in every way but it was something that i had to do.

My lecturer once said to me, everything is not black and white and sometimes they are grey areas and for me this project was about learning not to work with vague assumptions but also to give birth to understanding why sometimes you have to settle with a mixture of both black and white.

Lynn Davies warmly received me and allowed me to sit thorugh the second session. He was down to earth, knew his subject well and clearly had over 20 years of screen writing experience under his belt. Some of the time i felt completely out of my depth with the creatives and other times i caught up with them. By the time i left the place i had told myself that i do not a lot of refinement if i ever want to become a screen writer.

They were established writers, up coming writers, hobby writers and writers in the animation industry not to mention student writers too. I bought into a new world where laptops and software were not the greatest invention but rather creativity at its best with some direction, of course.

I certainly got the point about the fact that the purity of the creative mind can easily function if one is left with only a simple pen and paper, after all that was what the likes of Shakepeare had in their days and one can still see why the genuis of what they wrote continue to dumbfound the generation of today.

My view, i had learnt something that text-books can't teach you really well. When writers gather in one room to do the basic steps of writing, you can even hit gold in the power of creativity if it is simply writing a screen play out of a joke you just heard.

I intend to keep in touch with the writers that were willing to talk further about my project and i made some very interesting contacts so over all.

Eventhough i it was my first time in the Custard Factory, I kind of see myself making a few more trips to the places to check out what more the creatives are up to next. Catherine Edwards who kindly helped me get on the workshop at the last minute was very friendly and extremely helpful.

I am enjoying this journey of discovery and more importantly i am meeting really nice people as well and learning quite a lot in the process.

Now i have to work on developing further my networking contacts. You never know, they may hold the next story to Oscar Success.