I started writing in 2012 when living in Los Angeles and attending the Beverly Hills Playhouse as a director. Alan Barton who was my teacher and also being the owner of the BHP had somewhere along the way figured out something about me that I never did. For some reasons, he saw a writer in me while I saw myself more as a director. It is only after putting up many scenes and failing miserably at one of them that I finally came to embrace that role that Alan was so adamant about pushing.
I believe I was no different than most when it came to sit down and write a story, I was afraid and I was procrastinating but through frustrations and ended up doing it.
By default, through my directing, I soon realized and understood that my style was very epic and grandiose and so for me telling a short story seemed almost impossible. How could only write few pages and attain that goal of being Epic. In reality, one needs to start at the beginning... And in this month of April 2012, I managed to do just that. 2 people having a conversation in a bar was the beginning and the seed that I would grew into something way bigger later. In May 2012, I produced my first short and this for me was a simple exercise but also a prologue to what would come after ward.
In the following year I would have unfortunately to go back home and lick my wounds. Again frustration of not have been able to stay was a great motivator and thus I began to write more about my epic story, the Lords of Karma. Over the years, I wrote many movies screenplays, TV series episode, but it never quite good enough for me. Life was not giving me any really opportunity out there and to be honest I was not really into the whole try 200 times to pitch your story and maybe somebody will be interested. High profile/Epic Sci-Fi genre are difficult to sell because they cost a lot and Sci-Fi is a genre that is usually very limiting in terms of audience capture. Unless you create something as encompassing as Star Wars or else, then you get a winner. In the end, Sci-Fi/Fantasy are usually a lot more though to sell than any other genre.
Anyway, at some point I even wrote books, not that I was that great at writing novels but for me it was a way to keep the canon alive and possibly expending on it. Being able to sit down everyday and write something was certainly an interesting experience but when it comes to writing, screenplays have always been my thing because of the fact that I am so visual.
I started writing in 2012 when living in Los Angeles and attending the Beverly Hills Playhouse as a director. Alan Barton who was my teacher and also being the owner of the BHP had somewhere along the way figured out something about me that I never did. For some reasons, he saw a writer in me while I saw myself more as a director. It is only after putting up many scenes and failing miserably at one of them that I finally came to embrace that role that Alan was so adamant about pushing.
I believe I was no different than most when it came to sit down and write a story, I was afraid and I was procrastinating but through frustrations and ended up doing it.
By default, through my directing, I soon realized and understood that my style was very epic and grandiose and so for me telling a short story seemed almost impossible. How could only write few pages and attain that goal of being Epic. In reality, one needs to start at the beginning... And in this month of April 2012, I managed to do just that. 2 people having a conversation in a bar was the beginning and the seed that I would grew into something way bigger later. In May 2012, I produced my first short and this for me was a simple exercise but also a prologue to what would come after ward.
In the following year I would have unfortunately to go back home and lick my wounds. Again frustration of not have been able to stay was a great motivator and thus I began to write more about my epic story, the Lords of Karma. Over the years, I wrote many movies screenplays, TV series episode, but it never quite good enough for me. Life was not giving me any really opportunity out there and to be honest I was not really into the whole try 200 times to pitch your story and maybe somebody will be interested. High profile/Epic Sci-Fi genre are difficult to sell because they cost a lot and Sci-Fi is a genre that is usually very limiting in terms of audience capture. Unless you create something as encompassing as Star Wars or else, then you get a winner. In the end, Sci-Fi/Fantasy are usually a lot more though to sell than any other genre.
Anyway, at some point I even wrote books, not that I was that great at writing novels but for me it was a way to keep the canon alive and possibly expending on it. Being able to sit down everyday and write something was certainly an interesting experience but when it comes to writing, screenplays have always been my thing because of the fact that I am so visual.