As a kid I suffered from a disease known as "A Plastic Anemia";I had a bone marrow transplant. Which kinda changed a lot of things for me. I remember writing a story of a dead kid on my hospital bed----my first story.
All this made me a hyper-sensitive kid. Writing was the only window where I could express my feelings.

I ,in pursuit of imitating my father started writing poetry and never touched fiction for a long time..I kept on perusing my dream of compiling my first book of poems.

When I went to a Engineering university I was already quite good at poetry.We here in Pakistan have a poetic gathering called a "mushaira",where poets recite their poems.I went to alot of such gatherings  and I was appreciated by many known poets.
It was until 2006 that I was sent by the university to attend an All-Pakistan  short story competition;as my university was an Engineering university, they were short of people who were interested in art. I astonishingly won the competition(not to mention a lot of people from top art schools were attending the competition). It was after that when I  seriously started writing fiction. I have written a few short stories since then. I , fortunately, was asked by a director to write a short film in 2008. She was interested in filming one of my short story. She filmed it with the name " Unknown".

To cut the story short :
I have been writing for 12 years now but screen writing is rather new to me. I am still learning the art. I would love to leave my day job at some point of my life and start writing professionally.

Razi

Quoted from Colkurtz8 During my incubatory months, I storyboarded a one act play on the inner lining of my mothers womb using nothing but the sharpened cuticle of my pinky. Every time the cursed woman stretched I lost an evening's work. Of course I didn't posses the mental faculties back then to remember what I had wrote (vague memories of INT. VESSEL - NIGHT occasionally breach my thoughts nowadays akin to an acid flashback, however, the actual plot continually escapes me) so I had to start from scratch over and over again until I was abruptly pulled out by the legs on day 273.   Now...beat that

hahah lol ... thats what you call a born writer

"My short called 'The Race' is actually my first memory, I wrote it there and then.  I think that means I beat you Col lol."

-- This is a sulking, thunder-less me

First of all, hello everybody! I say that with such deliberate intention because this is my first post on simplyscripts. As I've started writing my first script, I needed to know the proper format and I found this place through a search. It was exactly what I needed and much thanks to the admin., regulars and the powers-that-be in general behind the site.
As to the thread subject: I started writing when I was fourteen because my older brother dabbled in the art of poetry so I thought it made me precocious and erudite to do likewise. Anyhow, he quit a looooooong time ago and I'm still at it. I branched out from poetry when I was in college and I have written 4 novels and one three act play in the 25 years since my humble and incipient days of imitating my brother's pursuits. I have a novel published with a small (now defunct) press and it is, nonetheless, available on amazon (fyi, Macky Dunn's Got Nothing To Lose). Two of my other novels I would not want in print. But, that painful admission being made, my last novel is a masterpiece-in-waiting. The reaction to it from several devoted readers (one of whom has a Masters in Eng. lit.) around me has been outstanding and cause for quite a healthy tailwind in my devotion to the only thing I've ever loved doing. In that regard, I'm diligently pursuing a lit. agent right now in my life. As well, I've just started writing essays on film and literature in the past 6 months and have found this divergent discipline to be very unique and satisfying with regards to territory of my mind as yet untapped.
I've read my poetry in various places across the country: Seattle, Chicago, Boston, New York, etc. and I've got a collection entered into the 2010 Yale Younger Poet competition. I've just assumed my entry fee to be a donation but somebody's got to win and my stuff is good enough... It's just a matter of the taste of the judges.
Well, that's my story. Sorry to make it so brief   but I've got writing to do.
Again, thanks to whoever has put their time into simplyscripts. Your site is a godsend and a wonderful find for a newbie to the art of the manuscript.
  

i started writing because of simply scripts, this site has had such a huge impact on me! i've always made movies and had ideas flowing through me for as long as i can remember, but i never even thought to write them down or develop a screenplay. when i came across this site i immediately wrote one as fast as i could because well i was twelve and thought i was the shit! haha, but i wrote it because the reviewing aspect appealed to me so much, i knew nothing about screenplays! after that the writing never stopped, from the sloppy script that i first sent in i learned how to fully format a script, all from this website! this still surprises me because people have taken classes to learn to screen write but i just grew into it because of this website! this post has really got me thinking now hahah - thanks don!!!

Quoted from razi As a kid I suffered from a disease known as "A Plastic Anemia";I had a bone marrow transplant. Which kinda changed a lot of things for me. I remember writing a story of a dead kid on my hospital bed----my first story. All this made me a hyper-sensitive kid. Writing was the only window where I could express my feelings. I ,in pursuit of imitating my father started writing poetry and never touched fiction for a long time..I kept on perusing my dream of compiling my first book of poems. When I went to a Engineering university I was already quite good at poetry.We here in Pakistan have a poetic gathering called a "mushaira",where poets recite their poems.I went to alot of such gatherings  and I was appreciated by many known poets. It was until 2006 that I was sent by the university to attend an All-Pakistan  short story competition;as my university was an Engineering university, they were short of people who were interested in art. I astonishingly won the competition(not to mention a lot of people from top art schools were attending the competition). It was after that when I  seriously started writing fiction. I have written a few short stories since then. I , fortunately, was asked by a director to write a short film in 2008. She was interested in filming one of my short story. She filmed it with the name " Unknown". To cut the story short : I have been writing for 12 years now but screen writing is rather new to me. I am still learning the art. I would love to leave my day job at some point of my life and start writing professionally. Razi

Razi,

Your story is very interesting to me.

I'm often drawn to people and their stories, outside of our typical "how we came to writing stories".

This last Christmas, 2009, I was enjoying Bower Place Mall for the first time during "the season".

There was a man. He was doing "sand art". You may or may not have ever seen this before.

It's a kind of art where the sand is sprinkled through a kind of faucet into a vessel. The vessele might be like a typical vase, or it might be more flat-- it doesn't matter the shape.

I looked at this gentleman, and I really needed to ask him:

"When did you start doing this? What prompted you?"

His answer was this:

His father used to work in a construction kind of business where he delivered sand.

As a kid, he started playing with it.

The interesting thing was that he said, he couldn't sketch worth a darn. He said his son could, but he couldn't. Ask him to draw something and he said he was useless, but his son had that talent.

When I talked with the family, I learned they were from Jerusalem. I still don't know today if they were here on some kind of work permit or not, but I do know...

I felt a wonderful connection that I can't explain.

I really want to say that I appreciate hearing your story and within myself, I have this desire to connect with people across the world.

I don't know what it is, but I love to learn other languages as do my children.

All in all, it's a blessing. I know that.

Even though I'm fighting to remember the bathroom question in Spanish.



Sandra