Home from Ahoskie

Well, I am back from my month long excursion to Ahoskie, North Carolina, where I worked my first PA (Production Assistant) job on the set of the independent film Mississippi Damned. It was such an amazing, stressful, exciting, exhausting, enlightening, overwhelming experience that I am still trying to process it. I will write more on the subject as I regain the ability to form cohesive sentences. 

Until then, check out the little local news segment on it: Hollywood come to Hertford. 

Learning to Cook

When I decide to do something, I put all I have into it and I try to get it done right then. I don't like when things take longer than I would like to start or start and stop and start again or they just happen at slow pace in general. I suppose this is something I will have to work on. I need to learn how to keep my passion, enthusiasm, and determination up for long periods of time, and I need to learn to put projects on the "back burner."

I'm still trying to get in touch with Mr. Smith, but until I hear something, I think that project will have to go on the back burner.

I'm thinking about teaming up with a peer and helping produce a web-based sitcom, but with my course load and ever-increasing responsibilities outside of school, I need to figure out what else I can put on the back burner. Better yet, I need to figure out how to toggle in between so that I can work on everything, and get things done when they need to be done. 

To continue the cooking metaphor, I'm sure I will be burned sooner or later trying to handle all of this. I just hope I don't completely burn out. I keep having to remind myself that there is time, I haven't failed yet, I'm not ten steps behind like I think I am, and it is okay not to have achieved all my goals by 28. I am okay.

i can has option plz?

Okay, so, I just finished reading Bone the other day. I absolutely love that comic (if you haven't read it, you must!) and what's more, I really really really want to option it. I'm sure it seems like it is out of my league, but I know I could do it, and do it well. Jeff Smith still holds the rights, so I am currently trying to get in touch with him about optioning the material. I hope I am not too late. We'll see what happens.  

Greetings

For a long time, I have debated whether or not to get a blog of my own. I had always thought blogs were like online journals, which I absolutely hate (Why WHY put your heart on the internet for anyone to see?). Now though, I think I am beginning to understand what blogs are about. 

My main reason for getting a blog of my own is to help my career. This blog will (hopefully) keep people up-to-date on my current projects and allow them to offer aid and advice (goodness knows I need it). In the future, it may serve as a forum for my rants (if I decide they are worth putting up). We shall see. 

Now, I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Stephanie and I am a film student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I am passionate, amiable, and a natural leader. I aspire to be a writer/director/producer, but lately I have been leaning more toward producing. My first project is a secret at the moment, but if things go well in the next few weeks, you may hear more. I need to work on this whole writing-about-myself thing. 

Anyhow, welcome and I hope you stay tuned!