How To Write Scripts

• Get bored in a boring class (might I recommend Economics?)
• Have an idea involving German fairytales
• Try writing idea
• Try writing idea
• Talk about alternate universe where script writing is meaningless and so is life
• Plan what your ideal cult would be like, decide to take on separate project besides script -> performance art dance party parade
• Talk to others about how much you hate script
• Avoid script
• Try writing idea
• Try to be an adult
• Avoid Script
• Decide to change plot so that it's much shorter
• Try writing idea
• Completely change plot
• Try writing idea
• Find out that people are more invested in performance art than actual script
• Cry a l'il
• Avoid script
• Work on different idea altogether from writing either script
• Dance break!
• Regress to plot of script you started six months ago based on themes you've used before
• Write idea so that it's much closer to everything else you've written 
• Write
• Write
• Have breakthrough
• Hate breakthrough
• Make all friends leave general vicinity 
• Finish script
• Start to edit
• Realize you've made a ton of mistakes emotionally
• Change of heart
• Stick to guns
• Have long talk with script about how much it means to you
• And if that doesn't work out
• Blame the fact your Nana died in November for all of your shortcomings
• SUCCESS.

An Evolution

I never did well in French class. I can edit the grammar and spelling of an English piece to the ends of the earth, but my pick-up of basic phrases in other languages has always been poor. However, the most penetrating piece of advice I've ever gotten, I got from my French teacher. 

"Never be the smartest person in the room."

This nugget really changed my perspective as a 15 year old on how I was approaching the world and the people around me. Every teenager Everyone at some point or another has wanted to prove that they're somehow better than others, when in reality, if you're the smartest person in the room - you're in the wrong room. You should be constantly trying to better yourself, against all odds.

After years of turning this over and over in my head, however, I've decided I need to improve upon this.

"Never think you're the smartest person in the room."

Don't be cocky. Don't be self-righteous. You are, in no way, better than me as a whole because of one aspect of yourself. 99% of the time, I am the most knowledgeable person on serial murderers in a room. Despite this, I know that any other person knows something that I don't, and I constantly want to learn from them. I do my best not to put people down who know less than me on one mere subject, because they probably know more about a ton of other things. I am not the sum of my parts - I am my parts, and I'm proud of that.

Learning to Love the Same Thing

I have grown up in the same town my entire life. My mom grew up two blocks away from my house in one direction, my dad two blocks in the other. My house has never been anything but my home, and it is hard to imagine that change - the one slowly encroaching.

So, my 365 will be a picture a day around my house, learning to love the same things I've always known, and hoping to "inspire" others to do the same. Love where you are. Don't be afraid.

My 365.