My Life In Movie Form

A very long time ago I decided to live my life as if I was a character in a book. To keep life interesting. If I didn't have adventures, why would someone keep reading? Gotta do things to make people keep turning the pages.

I then learned about the art of story. It is strongly emphasized by TWLOHA, and my favorite nonfiction writer wrote a book titled "A Million Miles In A Thousand Years" all about the idea of living your life in story form. He learned about story while writing the screenplay for the movie adaption of his book "Blue Like Jazz", and he saw great potential in applying the rules of story to our lives. This was farther encouragement for me to live as if I was a character.

There was a period in my life where I wondered if my life really was set up as some kind of weird movie, kinda like The Truman Show. I was just paranoid, but my life had all the makings of a movie.

Back in May/June when I went through some girl trouble, I had a ton of people telling me that my life was like a young adult novel, a movie, or a teen tv series. I actually really liked that. It meant that I was succeeding. I kept it interesting. I was living as if I was a character in a book.

Eventually some of that faded because I had to take life more seriously. I'm growing old. I'm about to go to college and go into incredible, life-changing debt. I literally couldn't afford to be care free. Also, my friends are getting older too. Some even moving away. All of them super busy. We don't get to have our crazy adventures very often anymore.

I've been writing this screenplay for several months. It started as an idea. I had a character that I really wanted to write a movie about. I also had this shot I wanted near the end. But it quickly had to change. The character I was trying to create wasn't working. He was simply too cool. He needed to be more like me. So I toned him down, and things began to fit together. The movie started being based off of my life.

I'm still not done with the movie. It's gone through a ton of re-writes. Right now I'm struggling with this one particular thing near the end. But I can confidently say this movie is me. It is my life. Not every scene has really happened, though a lot have. A lot of the events that haven't happened to me personally have happened to friends of mine. Some things I had to create simply to make a good story. My life isn't done, I don't have things figured out, but my character needs to end the movie on a good note. So I had to work some things out for him.

People said that my life was like a movie, so I took my adventures and made them into a movie. And it's good. It's really good.

I'm going to be working on making my life more like a movie. It really worked for me before, so I think I might go back to that. I think maybe I take things to seriously nowadays.