Blog #13: Farewell Friends (& Script Frenzy)

David DeGennaro
Creative Writing
Final Blog

When we first discussed the project I left class a bit overwhelmed. It surely seemed like an unconquerable task, One Hundred pages!  However now that it is done I’m sure I could have made it somewhat close to my goal, maybe 70-80 pages? This did not happen though as after the first few weeks I think the class decided you wouldn’t care how far we got as no one made much progress (other than a select few). Once the Stars stopped going on the board, I was done.  The entire planning stage was a great help and without it I wouldn’t have such three dimensional characters or a decent story, however thinking about one story for a month without writing any of it made me lose interest very quickly. The packet at the time seemed very boring and endless but in hindsight it was a great help (however still quite boring). I wish the packet took less than a whole month…
Tackling this enormous project I learned several things about myself, some good some bad. I am able to create large worlds with many intertwining scenes and characters, however I do not have the patience to put these worlds together…if only I could make a living telling stories orally. I also learned I love thinking of slow love filled thought provoking stories but I don’t exactly like writing them. I need action! I also learned I can write quite humorously (as seen in my final two pages).
I had fourteen pages in my final project, a good deal away from my goal of ninety…however I was actually pleased with my work. I handled my time very poorly and I was well aware of that at the time, like I said, once the class realized you didn’t really expect one hundred pages we gave up, sorry. I wasted almost all my time as did many of the people seated near me.
I’m very proud of my dialogue and characters as I feel they both seem very real and believable. Clay is such a flawed character and I sympathize with him a lot. Truth be told I put a lot of myself inside the script and to me it really shows. I only wish I stuck with my script and didn’t get bored so I could finish the darn thing and be proud for real! However for everything I’m proud of there’s two things that I am not proud of for this project.
I was lazy! I barely wrote anything compared to Matt, Olivia, and Peter! The worst part is I don’t even care despite knowing I should! Maybe that is just late senioritius…or an increase?
If we had more time to do this script I most likely would have added very little unfortunately. Eventually the slacking reached a point of no return and I decided why bother? I really felt like we spent our valuable class time somewhat poorly…we never even got to poetry. I really looked forward to poetry and my Creative Writing dream was dashed away as well…I wanted to write a short story. I wished to make the story of Clay and Hope so badly that I used it for my script and I don’t think it came out as well as it should have.
I really enjoyed this class with it’s fun students and surprisingly involving Disney talks, however this project simply was not for me (or anyone else in class from what I saw) and I wish we spent more time doing other projects.