guh

have to meet my supervisor at 11 tomorrow to discuss the disgustingly bad outline that I cobbled together last week for my screenplay

she’s going to chew the marrow out of my bones, I can tell

and then I have to write the entire thing in a month, starting tomorrow

yep. I’ve got to throw together the first draft of a feature length film in 30 days

that’s anywhere between 90 and 120 pages to write in a month

‘bricking it’ doesn’t even BEGIN to cover how I feel right now

ughhhhh

dissertation marks & new haircut (warning: this post is half ranting / half self-indulgent photos)

So, I got my dissertation mark back, and it was marked by my second-least-favourite creative writing professor. I recognised her handwriting.

Let me get this straight - I’m not unhappy with a B+. B+s are cool. I’m unhappy with her stupid goddamn comments.

“The commentary and synopsis present a story which is an intriguing development of a familiar formula, exploring feminist issues in a historical context through the relationship between a time-shifted young woman and a feminist campaigner. […] Unfortunately, neither the relationship nor the feminist issues make an appearance in this. What we are left with is a well crafted but conventional genre exercise.”

WOMAN

THIS IS NOT A PLAY

I CANNOT SKIP AROUND

THEY TOLD ME TO WRITE THE FIRST 30 PAGES OF A FEATURE LENGTH FILM, SO I DID

I CAN’T BE LIKE “HERE’S SCENES 1 THROUGH 5, NOW ACT TWO WITH SCENES 2 THROUGH 4, NOW ACT THREE WITH SKDLJFSDKJFL” - A SCREENPLAY IS A FLUID DOCUMENT. YOU DON’T NUMBER YOUR SCENES OR ACTS. EVER.

IF I SUDDENLY THREW MY SCREENPLAY TO THE VERY END AND TOSSED IN A COUPLE OF LESBIAN SCENES (AND TRUST ME, I WANTED TO), SHE WOULD BE ALL “OH NO WHY IS THIS DISJOINTED WHAT IS HAPPENING I DON’T UNDERSTAND???”

“Such a shame you did not choose scenes which expressed the essence of your project. I’m sure they would have been as well written as those which you provide, but one can only mark what one is given.”

ARGHGJGJGKGJKFHFHGHGHGHHH

Goddamn creative writing professors. :/ If that was genuinely the only thing they could find wrong with my project (they didn’t comment on anything else), I would like to punch them in the face.

I shake my fist at you, madam.

ANYWAY, in lighter news - I got a haircut yesterday. :D!

I look less like a disheveled, sleep-deprived student and more like an actual person.

Oh, and what’s that? Is that my special creative writing necklace that I wear whenever I write creatively?

Yep.

I’m throwing myself back at Volunteer Hours today. :D Let’s see what happens. <3

holy SHIT - the total amount of work I’ve done since MARCH (i.e.: why I have been DISGUSTINGLY busy)

I was trying to procrastinate this morning, because I’m a dumbass, so I added up all of the wordcounts for all of my assignments since March.

Yeah. Since March. Not including my JANUARY ASSIGNMENTS

JESDFKJSDKLFJ

ESSAY WORDCOUNT:
3,490 - British Writing in the 1930s
2,729 - British Writing in the 1930s
3,452 - Reader Revealed
3,604 - Reader Revealed
1,723 - Dissertation Treatment (Disconnect Screenplay)
1,647 - Dissertation Commentary (Disconnect Screenplay)
1,192 - Adaptation - Critical and Reflective Essay (The Fountain of Fair Fortune)
1,653 - Adaptation - Critical and Reflective Essay (The Secret of Platform 13)
789 - The Fountain of Fair Fortune Outline (Adaptation)
2,031 - The Secret of Platform 13 Treatment (Adaptation)
TOTAL: 22,310

SCRIPT PAGE COUNT:
15 - The Fountain of Fair Fortune (Adaptation)
32 - The Secret of Platform 13 (Adaptation)
30 - Disconnect (Dissertation)
TOTAL PAGE COUNT: 77

SCRIPT WORDCOUNT:
4,113 - The Fountain of Fair Fortune
6,864 - Disconnect
7,386 - The Secret of Platform 13
TOTAL: 18,363


TOTAL TOTAL WORDCOUNT: 40,673

40,673

40,673

40,673

JESUS CHRIST

UH

SO, IF YOU’RE WONDERING WHY VOLUNTEER HOURS HASN’T UPDATED FOR A WHILE… HAHAHA, OH GOD.

HOW AM I NOT DEAD

IN OTHER NEWS, I AM DONE WITH THIRD YEAR

I GOT MY FINAL ASSIGNMENT IN ON TIME

I CAN

YOU KNOW

STOP

I THINK

MAYBE I SHOULD KEEP GOING I DON’T KNOW WHAT DO I DO IN MY LIFE WITHOUT WORK SERIOUSLY WHAT DO I DO

I HAVE NO IDEA OH MY GOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HOLY SHIT

( I am a fucking UNDERGRADUATE, why did I have THIS MUCH WORK D: )

oh, what’s that?

IT’S MY MOTHERFUCKING COMPLETED AND BOUND AND HANDED IN WITH A WHOLE 40 MINUTES TO SPARE DISSERTATION

AW

YEAH

AWWWW YEAAAAAAAHHHHH

It was kind of a clusterfuck at the very very end, and I was up for about 34 hours straight, working on it (I got last minute feedback from my dissertation supervisor and had to cut down a lot and rebuild it), but HERE IT IS AND IT IS DONE.

and yes, now you guys know my university but I SO DON’T CARE

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

IT’S DONE IT’S DONE IT’S DONE

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