30 Days of Night(mare)

Welcome, weary internet traveller. Whatever path on the information superhighway has brought you here - hopefully not from a cyberspace bazaar peddling other out of date references - you have nonetheless arrived, at the digital doorstep of this blog. I thank you in advance for stopping by. I hope the stories and situations you will encounter within have something to your tastes and sensibilities. Hopefully something to make you laugh, or cry, or feel disgusted or repulsed. But most importantly, above all else, I hope there is something here that will make you feel. 

Some elaboration. As part of a creative developmental challenge - partly in preparation for the second year of my Screenwriting MA degree, partly to spark some productivity as we near the final stages of a global pandemic lockdown, and partly to churn out as much shit as I can in the hope of getting somewhere between 'not bad' and 'average'  I will be spending the next 30 days - that's June to the layman - embarking on the below challenge, of which several of my peers are doing the same. Although who survives is anyone's guess! It's a Hunger Games of writing. Our doubt and self loathing the inner manifestation of our President Snow, sans the magnificent beard. 

So yeah. It's that simple. One script a day for 30 days. No re-drafting, no tinkering. What's on the page at the end of the day is it - but hopefully a complete script each and every day to be posted here and forgotten about until the month is over. The lengths and subjects and genres all currently a mystery at the time of writing this introduction, although no doubt all there somewhere in the intangible miasma of imagination waiting to be extracted and given form. How exciting!...and, of course, terrifying!    

Feel free to read and offer feedback in the comments sections. Constructive criticism, exuberant praise and direct vitriol all welcome, of course. Who knows, there may even be something here, something buried within. Deep, deep within. Even if there's one page, one paragraph, heck -one line of gold amongst the trash, it's surely worth prospecting for, right?

So...let's limber up the typing fingers and creative brain pan and dive in shall we?

And again, thank you for stopping by.

Chris