the evolution of a story

Since Lakewood was never really made, it has simmered in my mind since senior year ended.

Naturally, the dialogue was hard to get right, and I look back on the script and feel like it lacked an overall general direction. Over time, in my mind, I would add more to the characters to help better define them. I would give them each their own specific objects that would convey a deeper meaning, and so on.

Eventually, I began to realize that what I was working towards was a story about loss and change, about gain and about self exploration. All of these fit well with a road trip as the “setting,” and a time frame of after the first year of college, or possibly the summer before.

Funniest part is, as much as I’d love to take a year or two and make a serious “film,” I obviously can’t really do that, and at the same time, I’m not so sure I’d want to commit myself to something that large, because I’m currently being drawn more towards graphic and web design, with motion graphics someday being introduced, once I learn the technical backend. Film, and everything about it is always going to be a passion, and an interest of mine, I’m just not so sure it will be the main focus. It certainly hasn’t been for a long time now. I haven’t had the chance to make my own film in over a year.

I just had this realization about the story I began to write almsot a year and a half ago now, as I was laying in bed, and felt the need to put it out there. Somewhere. So I put it here.