My first real story was a screenplay I wrote in 7th grade. My friends and I wanted to make a movie, and we came up with a title - Defy the Line - that we thought would make a great film.
Trouble was, we didn't have a storyline to go with it. We all wracked our brains trying to come up with something, but there were no ideas, no sparks, no inspiration at all.
Then one night, while I was just hanging out at my grandmother's house, a wonderful idea for the story just materialized in my mind out of nowhere. I was so excited that I started writing that night and finished the first scene.
This was my first experience with the amazing rush of excitement and possibility that comes with sudden inspiration.
I'd had no idea that inspiration could work like that. I'm sure I'd heard people talk about it before...how you sitting there thinking of something completely pointless and then BAM! Something beautiful just unfolds in your brain, and you feel the intense creative energy running through you. You know it's a good idea, and it comes with this craving to get it down, to remember it, to do something worthy of such an idea. Defy the Line was one of those ideas.
Unfortunately, I never finished writing it. I tried for a long time, but I loved my idea so much that I couldn't get past the feeling that I wasn't doing it justice, that I simply didn't have the ability to pull it off. So I finally gave up and pushed it out of my mind.
But it refused to go away. I thought about it often. Every now and again, I would find myself itching to try again, but I haven't yet reached a point where I feel like I'm ready. Still, Defy the Line is a story that’s been in my head for eight years now.
I keep writing in the hopes that one day I will finally be good enough to tell it.
Writing Matters.
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