Nova, Idears, First Short Film
Another short film is available here.
The thing is… the idears. How many idears can a person actually have in a lifetime? If I’ve failed at anything in this (worst)writer life, having idears ain’t one of them.
As mentioned here and here, I’m a prolific note taker. There were times - yeah, when I was young - where I would spend days just writing stuff down on and with anything I could find. Ultimately that stuff would be nothing but notes. Heck, there’s so much of it that I can’t go through it all. It’s not that I can’t go through it all on account it’s so poorly written… that’s a given. I can’t go through it all because it seems that all I can really produce - as (worst)writer - are a bunch of friggin notes and that just seems counter productive to what I think I should actually be… or do… or… Whatever.
One day I got to thinking that maybe what I’m doing is or has something to with… I don’t know… anecdotes. Or parables… Naw. They’re definitely not parables!
Here’s my first attempt at a short film which is basically taking my note-taking and/or idear makin’ to the next level. Keep in mind, this is nothing but the sound of a fellow human trying - and failing - to be what he/she was not mean to be.
Yeah, life is a bullet-hole ridden sheet of paper full of typos. Yeah, the sound of making typos… If only the sound of those typos fit the sequence of the film. So much for video decoding.
The mess produced in this short film is available as a scan/pic below. Good luck.
(Worst)Write on…
-tgs-
February 18, 2008 at 8:15 pm
The sound of that machine is lovely, almost soothing. Only, you’re not allowed to make mistakes or you would have to start everything from the beginning.
February 18, 2008 at 9:51 pm
May… Sorry… (but) Why can’t I make (a) mistake(s)?
(Thanks for giving it a look ;-)
Tommi
February 19, 2008 at 7:39 am
Because you cannot go back and delete the characters that you have already typed (as I am doing now trying to find the right words). On the other hand, being a typist sound like the perfect job to me right now.
I gave more than just a look around here…how is the Olivetti doing?
February 20, 2008 at 7:35 am
The Olivetti is fine. Thanx for asking.
February 23, 2008 at 3:26 pm
When is the next post coming?
An Affectionate Reader
February 23, 2008 at 5:10 pm
May, we have to stop meeting like this…
You may (hopefully?) have noticed, especially in posts after May 07, that I’ve been working on a novel. Up to October I considered the first rough draft finished - only requiring a bit of work to finish the end. But then I found myself in a rut and have been struggling. Xmas, end of year and other happenings didn’t helped my cause. Recently things have picked up again and I’ve won new confidence to go on.
Thanx for your interest.
February 23, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I have read, randomly, many of your past posts and, randomly, sentences here and there within them. Therefore I am afraid that I missed the chronological order of the events happening in your writing life. Nevertheless I enjoyed the writing in itself and I hope that the inspiration continues to be abundant. Good luck!
March 11, 2008 at 2:23 pm
The beauty of using a typewriter is that you CAN make mistakes. I realized this when I was working on my MA in Creative Writing. I had to go out west and couldn’t take my computer so, at the last minute I packed an old Royal manual. I found that I wrote some of my best stories ever on it. This is the thing, in addition to all the cool authentic sounds and feelings comes the actual physicality of the thing and the process. You are physically slowed down to a degree as compared to a computer keyboard and you have the physical text there, appearing before your eyes. But, you are not, or should not, worry about a typo here and there. Just write. Because here is the thing. With the word-processor we tend to edit as we go, cutting and pasting willy-nilly. Before no one wrote perfectly either. Texts tended to be COMPLETELY written at least twice…This tends to improve your writing. So today, I often do my initial composition on a typewriter and then retype the text into my computer and make use of very nice modernisms such as spell check.
March 11, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Oh, I live in Sweden at present and just bought a beautiful Baby Hermes in perfect working condition with the Scandinavian keyboard… All the regular letters plus THREE more!