Blog 12 and 13

Blog 12 Scene reflection If i had to write my scene over again I would just extend it in length, It had strong characters and action but was just a little short. The characters have great descritpion and depth to them, as well as keeping you interested. Blog 13 When i first found out about script frenzy I was incredibly annoyed and shocked that i would be participating in such a long and incredibly strenuous project. Now that its done I think it was a good, fun and creative way to pass time. Unfortunatley I didnt find the packet too helpful, unless you count the dialogue pages but that was pretty much it. I learned that I have a tendency to lose track of time easily and procrastonate often without a partner to keep me on track (zach!). My final script is just over 32 pages, short of my goal but showing that I need more time to get my writing out, its easier to get started once we get going but getting there takes a while. My stranghts are in the details. The characters and their interactions/relationships are very strong. They have deep realtionships that are quite interesting if you break them down. My weakness is in the plot, it was kind of a make-it-up-when-you-go-along, type of thing and if I had more time to work on this script I would strengthen the plot and transitions from scene to scene. Overall I really enjoyed this class and it gave me a great amount of joy to work on my creative writing in your presence <3

Blog 11

Titus and Celtix stand alone in the garage, setting up plans to leave for Topeka. Celtix cracks open a black cherry soda and hands another to Titus, one of their favorite drinks while growing up. The garage is open, and leaves rustle by; the only sound left to hear in this eerie forsaken world. Titus: "We need to make a decision, I understand you feel the need for us to stick together.. but I don't trust Luther. He's already made risky decisions that have put all of us in jeapordy" Celtix: "Believe me, I know.. but as of right now, we've only got eachother. No one else knows where they're going or what to do. We have an idea.. whether its a good plan or not. We're pretty much in charge. Titus: "..Ok, hows this, Snax will drive sweet tooth with sloan and Old Man Witherspoon, while we stick together in the hummer with Starr and L. Sound good? Celtix: "Aren't you forgetting someone?!" Titus: "Personally, I feel no need to bring Luther, he's done nothing but cause problems and raise tention in the group.. He's not needed" Celtix: "Tention in the group? or between you and Starr?.. I get it, you dont trust him. But that doesnt mean we leave him for dead.. we'll put him in charge of Old Man Witherspoon when were not traveling, that should keep him busy and away from Starr.. Titus: "Agreed, Now lets get moving. We dont have time to waste and the longer we take to decide the longer they have to prepare..."

Blog 9

The relationship I'm describing here is between Titus and Luther, who end up fighting over fellow survivor Starr... Titus: "I think it's time we head out, we've been camped here for 3 days. Can't stay in one place to long, especially if we want to reach Ohio tomorrow." Luther: "Who put you in charge big shot? If anyone should be the leader it's me! I'm our QB, I've lead our team to more victories then any other in our schools history. What have you done Titus? Nothing! Step aside, bitch." Titus: "Nobody gives a shit about your pathedic highschool accomplishments. You think this is a joke? Everybody's fucking dead Luther. My parents, your parents, everyone. Our only hope is making it to Topeka and your worried you won't be the one in charge? Jesus think about someone other then yourself for once. The last thing we need is some gorilla leading the way" Luther: "Who the fuck you calling a gorilla?!" Starr: "Guys, guys! Calm down, lets take a deep breath for a minute."

Blog 10

This describes our characters moving forward to their final destination, Organizing and planning so it can eventually fall to shit and they can be royally screwed sometime in the not so distant future. Titus "We need to make a decision, I understand you feel the need for us to stick together.. but I don't trust Luther. He's already made risky decisions that have put all of us in jeapordy" Celtix "Believe me, I know.. but as of right now, we've only got eachother. No one else knows where they're going or what to do. We have an idea.. whether its a good plan or not. We're pretty much in charge. Titus "..Ok, hows this, Snax will drive sweet tooth with sloan and old man witherspoon, while we stick together in the hummer with star and langsenkamp. Sound good? Celtix "Aren't you forgetting someone?!" Titus "Personally, I feel no need to bring Luther, he's done nothing but cause problems and raise tention in the group.. He's not needed" Celtix "Tention in the group? or between you and star?.. I get it, you dont trust him. But that doesnt mean we leave him for dead.. we'll put him in charge of old man witherspoon when were not traveling, that should keep him busy and away from star.. Titus "Agreed, Now lets get moving. We dont have time to waste and the longer we take to decide the longer they have to prepare..."

Blog 7

Opening Scene: Erie music plays and shows scenes around town. The town is barren and abandonded. Cars are skewed off road with nobody in them, the local Wegmans and Target parking lots are empty and quiet, and no signs of life seem to exist anywhere. After about 3 minutes of showing these pictures, the screen goes black before showing Titus waking up in his room around 8am, apparently waking up from a nightmare. The Big Decision: Titus and Celtix both decide that heading to Topeka is their best chance at finding out what has happened. Joining up with Luther, Starr, Langsenkamp, Sloan, Snax, and Old Man Witherspoon. The team of surviviors take an abandoned baby blue hummer, and an icecream truck stocked with food, water, and LOTS of guns on their trip to Topeka. They drive until they run out of gas. The Final Push: The group is tired, weary, and distraught after losing some members and taking the long journey to Topeka. But hopes remain high as they are close to reaching their destination. Titus even finds love in Starr. When they finally reach the city outskirts, their dreams are crushed as they see the city is overrun with the same zombies back home. As the camera zooms out of the survivors in shock, a quarter of 1 million zombies climb the fence around the city limits headed straight towards the only known survivors.

Blog 6 , Sorry for the wait.

SET-UP: Titus and Celtix awake in their suburban neighborhood in upstate New York to find nobody but themselves and a few others alone. Nobody seems to remain except a few "undead" prowling the streets. Cell phones aren't working, power is down, and the water taps are shot. INCITING INCIDENT: Titus and Celtix each find a note written on their fridge doors saying Topeka, Kansas. They both decide it's their only hope of discovering what has happened, so they and the other survivors find a map, grab a neighbors abandoned Hummer, and head to Kansas. RISING ACTION: On their way to Topeka, they pass through 5 other states, and travel a total of 1763.78 miles. Along the way, they mend and bend relationships formed with Luther, their schools starting QB, Starr, his beautiful yet intelligent girlfriend, and Langsenkamp, a school nerd that never talks, but has keen survival skills. They also meet a few more surviviors that follow them on their journey. The group becomes so large that they must ration the food supplies and pick a leader. Titus and Luther both are selected as candidates, and they fight to become head hancho. CLIMAX: Titus and Luther eventually clash as opposites to where they fight and cause a scene that attracts undead to the groups rest area. Everyone is caught off guard and have no chance of holding off the attack. Some escape, separated from the group itself, and some succumb to the undead attackers. FALLING ACTION: Titus and Starr are separated from the group, while they have no idea where the others could be. They start off as enemies, but quickly become closer as they aren't sure if they will see the others, if any human life, again. Meanwhile, The rest of the group try and think of a way to contact the missing members. Eventually, they meet at the same town by chance and fight off an attack of zombies together. RESOLUTION: Finally reaching their destination, the rest of the stragglers are excited to enter the city and see what waits for them. All seems good, no more conflicts remain among the group, and hopes are high. But as they reach the city limits, they can see from afar that Topeka is plauged by them same problems their home town, and every other place they have passed, has developed. Zombies now control the United States, and possibly the world. The remaining survivors are left alone, dreams crushed, with 250000 + undead leaving Topeka, heading right towards them.

Blog 5 Revised logline

Log Line - Two boys awaken to an empty town, an empty world.. but they're not alone, they must rely on eachother if they hope to survive

Blog 4 - Log Line

Log Line - Two boys awaken to an empty town, an empty world and a note with a destination for danger.  they must rely on eachother if they hope to survive

Blog 3 6-word memoirs

1. Can doing my best be enough?

 I like this memoir becuase for a long time now, my main goal has been to prove my father wrong.  He told me "just because you want something badly doesnt mean your gonna get it, you cant will something to happen".., so I take risks, I get hurt but I dont care if I want it Ill find a way

2. Wheres the app for instant happiness?

This memoir speaks to me becuase we've grown so far together as a race, but there is still sooo many suffering, hungry dying and unhappy.  why is it so hard to be happy?

3. Most memorable person you have met?

Its easy for me, my mind goes to it like metal to a magnet; or a magnet to metal because she sure as hell attracts me alot more than I attract her and believe me i'm just stuck

4.Immortality - a fate worse than death?

I have often questioned how life would differ if we lived forever, we would never be truly free.  who knows really? but dying is a day worth living for, so persoanlly im excited for my last adventure, because the best part about the last adventure.. there's no such thing as a last adventure

5.If I use dashes, does it-count-as-six-words?

The writer of this obviulsly saw the potential to question the rules of the topic, challenging both themselves and society.  I respect the rule breaker, the boundry pusher and the man foolish enough to crawl into the dragons den with nothing but a sword and a shield and come out riding the magnificent beast that is "the man", freedom.

Blog #2 :Sorry for the Bland Basics,

Just a little bit about the basics.  Im hoping to increase the length of my short stories and creative writing assignments as well as the frequency i write.  I probably wont originally post on the blog but transfer my writings from a notebook, to this website. ill be focusing on "wowing" my readers and inspiring them through my outlook and intakes on lifes natural situation. I will post again shortly but I would rather Show you what im going to be doing and writing about then tell you..

Blog1 : Welcome to my Dreams

Imagine me, giving you a huge hug!... Don't actually, thats pretty weird.  You dont even know me and I dont know you.  Not yet at least. but perhaps this short segment of my dream will do a better job of introducing you to my soul, rather than the everyday person im seen as by peers and on-lookers.
              There had been a new way to travel, only it was a combination of strange, thrilling and dangerous if done wrong.  a balloon that knew how to take me where I needed to go.  For some stange reason it was yellow with a small basket-bag hanging below.  I would climb into the bag and it would gradually float me above the clouds, but today I couldnt get into the bag along with my posessions.  I ended up hanging onto the rope that connected the bag to the balloon.  which was weird because I knew I didn't have the strength to hold on.  I was about to let go when i noticed the roof below, unwilingly i dropped down and landed with a thud. As the balloon began to float away I ran and jumped just barely reaching the rope before i began to fall.  Luckily I caught myself by the finger tips on the edge of another segment of roof. I knew it was a bad idea to jump but I did it anyways, and I didnt care. Even though the chances of me getting hurt were astornomical, Ive learned from a young age  physical pain and death are hardly the worst thing that can happen to a person. So I will continue to jump...
          I will be using this blog to share with you my feelings, true feelings.  The words that are hard to say and when i open my mouth dont come out easily, sometimes not at all.  But im getting better, at both being myself and not caring what others think.  Its a very cool feeling, I have to admit, even though im giving you all the power to judge and criticize and poke fun, I dont think you will. If youve stuck with me this long, Welcome to the adventure and exploration of a man who wants to be a pirate, loves unconditionally, and is 17 but has a mental age well beyond his years. Thank you

The Drink of the Earth

Every cup, brewed with mother natures own leaves passes on all the wisdom of this earth.  alone in one cup, all the thoughts, all the energy, the strife, is given to us to learn and maintain balance within the world

Freedom

I often find myself asking “whats the use to worldly possessions?” if anything they’re just constant reminders that we don’t live forever and when we die, we cant take with us the things some people spend their whole life working to get. But there is often two sides to every story, so i choose to focus on the fact that, one day I will leave it all behind, and now gaining and losing anything (big or small) is a way of helping me let go of my attachments, so when that day comes,my spirit can be free.

Balance

Thoughts started to pour in and out of my mind, not regular thoughts but cosmic thoughts, as if they were poured from the big dipper its self.  The realization that if we don’t want the world to destroy itself, as humans, we must face and replace our previous faults with an era of peace and kindness.. in hopes to return the world to balance

Just A Thought

like the moon push’s and pulls the tides, the universe attempts to bend not only energy, but life

CrossRoads

They try to tell me there’s a lesson to be learned in every mistake.  They say “Gannon you needed this” “When will you learn” and the fact of the matter is, i’ve never stopped learning.  if theres one thing I can be sure of, its that our brains are constantly picking up information.  Just because it cant be seen does not mean it does not exist.  Imagine the roots of a great oak tree, though underground and hidden from sight, without them the leaves on the tree would cease to exist and soon enough the tree would be gone as well..

Founders of our own destruction

To me, its weird that we as humans are constantly trying to prove ourselves better than anyone or anything else.  Even when we consider survival, its seen as man vs. nature when the reality is, Man is nature.