One of my screenwriting teachers once told us that, when we’re struggling for ideas, good practice is to write down a whole bunch of things that piss you off. My list got up to about 15 things ranging from the obscure and petty to the obvious and legitimately concerning. At some point during the compilation of this list I started thinking about some global scale realities that piss me off and how, if we reduced these realities to a community level, people just wouldn’t stand for them.
That’s when I started this piece.
It starts out fairly strong but I definitely lost clarity of purpose at some point. The social allegory aspects of story either go missing or get too muddled in the middle. It took me a long time to get it where it is at right now but, having finally finished one draft, I think it is something I’d like another go at. There is still something to the story.
Those are my thoughts anyway. Please, read the story and share with me your own thoughts.
Small Tall Tales 