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Manic pixie dream

Manic Pixie Dream February is my writers month. I've said it before. I don't know what it is but as soon as February arrives, I get the urge to sit down and write. I love to write but after this month everything gets busy and I always manage to get off of track and stop writing for the next 11 months. I don't know... People always say that for a writer to be good, he/she has to write everyday. It takes practice. There was this one writer-director who came to our uni to host a masterclass and he said that writing is part of his morning routine. He was a bit unsatisfied with himself because he couldn't write as much as he wanted to, he had to come to our uni too early. And here I am writing one piece of whatever this is once or twice a year. Now don't get me wrong. I don't call myself a writer whatsoever. It is something that I do because I like it, and it helps me in what I eventually want to do, writing and directing screenplays. Or at least I think t...

When the drink matches the cup

It's 11:07 a.m. Friday morning in February, the bed is yet not made and the signs of a rushed breakfast are still all over the kitchen. Yet what am I doing? I am starting a blog. I have no idea how this world works, how and who is going to find my writings, but that doesn't really matter at the moment, the thing is I've been wanting to do this for a while, mostly for exercise.  I am a film directing student in my 2nd year of university, and in the past few years writing has been the utmost torment for me. I come from a mathematics-informatics class in high school and it kind of formed me into thinking in systematic plans and logical consequences - even though I was never great in programming, but I could handle math - my scripts are drawn, sketched, arrows point to here and there, and nobody understands anything but me. Even if the film turns out fine, and it is understandable, the pre-production process contains a lot of explaining. And explaining and explaining again. And...