MY SUBCONSCIOUS CAN'T SPELL

I just finished the first draft of a feature length script based on events in a friend's life. It needs some work but for the most part I'm pretty pleased with it.

It is a personal script not just for the person who's life it is but also for me. When I first read through the finished script I realized that so much of myself was being injected into the characters in the script which are based on real people in the life of my friend. The reason I find this so interesting is that this is the first semi-biographical script I've ever written - for some reason I had expected that it would leave "me" out of it. But what I've learned is that ANYTHING I write ends up having some of "me" in it whether it's biographical or simply creative. It's what makes all writing so personal.

The other thing that consistently amazed me with writing is that when I look over things I have written I typically don't remember writing certain lines or can't figure out where a "message" within the story came from. Sometimes it seems like it's not really me writing the story at all but by subconscious instead - almost dreamlike. It's such an intriguing process to me. In any case, I'm going to keep working on this script and maybe you'll see it on the big screen some day...or I'm blaming it on my subconscious!...If it had only listened to me...