Past Page Ten. But then what?

I began my higher education as an Undergraduate student in the world of film and screenplays. Last term as a Graduate student I jumped head first into the world of Theater and Playwriting. Having always had a deep passion for it I learned a lot and became hella inspired. This term however I seem to be straddling the two worlds of Film/TV and Theater. Even though I escaped to England in order to discover the world of writing for the wooden boards, life seems to be pulling me back into the screen and taking me one step further from the stage.

While we are meant to be concentrating this term on our chosen major interest I find myself torn. Our lecturer's on television writing are being bogged down into several short lessons culminating into a three page pitch for our own original TV series.

Something I never thought of doing until I've just been forced to is write for TV. Don't get me wrong- I love the stuff - but to create it? It seems for some reason never to of accrued to me to even try. And all the sudden I realized some of the scripts I've written - that just seemed to be missing something - turns out that something was just a smaller screen! Excited and flooded with ides (I know will never leave my page) I'm motivated into a new direction.

But lets me honest here, it doesn't take much to get me off on a tangent. Does it? Inspiration comes at the flick of a finger to me. It's the ADD probably but while I'm meant to figure out what my thesis play will be I've lost myself in older plays I'm still working on and can't seem to let go. It's no help having this new toy of 'writing for TV' and the never ending stream of scripts I have to read and report on in my new internship blocking my thought process.

Being as busy as I am I've plum forgot to say! I've started an internship at a literary agency in the heart of Camden Town. I work for the (what else) TV&Film department. Unlike some internships in the past (hell even full on salaried jobs) I'm actually enjoying myself and the work! I get handed a script - read and report. One after the other. I mean it's not anything new for me, only I get to sit in an office and do it in the hours in which people work. For some reason that makes it that much more comfortable. Don't get me wrong it's not easy to always give a report on a script, what it's essence is and then give advice on whether it hits the mark or not because there is a writer behind every submission.

A writer like me and I know what it's like to be rejected over and over again (which always makes that one acceptance so much sweeter. Doesn't it?) So unlike other readers who give you up until page ten to make it or break it, I give the benefit of the doubt and continue on because sometimes it's page 11 that's genius and for others it may be brilliant up until page 11 (which I found out recently - because I read on). If talent can be found among the ramble then I'll try and find it.

SO what does all this mean? I came to London to hone my playwriting skills but on top of it I ended up falling in love with TV/Film all over again and perhaps found a new passion for scripts themselves. Not just mine, I mean others. Finding talent and saying 'wow nice job' (I wish I wrote that) or 'there just may be something there - it's just not fully discovered yet. But keep at it.'- But I could say that to myself, couldn't I? A future - a goal? It's there murking about but I don't think I've pin pointed it just yet, which leaves my own script a bit open ended. And who the hell is gonna write that? If only there were dramagturge's and script editors giving reports on your life and handing out helpful suggestions for improving character journeys.