I was supposed to do a weekly blog post about my time in the dorm but with zero activities on campus and 0 roommates or friends, it’s been flat still. So, I started thinking about my next semester when I will definitely have some roommates. I was hoping they’d be good ones and then I realized it’s my last semester of college Before I start Driving after the world of the working and I don’t even have a tire.
So, lately I’ve been actually thinking about becoming a, well I’m not even sure what to call it anymore. Way back in 10th grade when I realized it I didn’t wanna be an astronaut and wanted to create entertainment. Then I started jumping from title to title; it started with video game animation, then regular animation, then story writing, screen-writing then I learned what a screenwriter actually does and wanted to become a director, auteur director. Now I’ve been getting really into comic books lately specifically DC and thinking the current stories I was invested in weren’t very good (Bat-family, Super sons, Justice League). As a writer, I started coming up with my own, now I’ve got at least 9 different fan fiction premises in my DC comic ideas folder.
However, despite what I call it the real issue, I’ve been having is just be breaking into the industry at all. I mean I’m well aware, or at least tell myself am aware of the unrelenting struggle that it is to become a content creator.
I often describe it like everyone else’s career paths as complicated obstacle courses, a difficult path to maneuver through but if you complete it, you’ll have your career. However, content creators are very different. It’s more akin to paying thousands of dollars, to be randomly fired out of a cannon at a target, ricocheted off said target onto another target and then maintaining that forever. A lot of work, money and time to maybe get close to something resembling your career.
I always figured I could get a job in the industry if I learned enough about the world of film and Production and could play multiple roles. (Filming, Writing, Editing) that’s going to be pretty difficult if I can’t even get a job in the industry. One thing everyone tells me is you need to get an internship ant the type of studious you’d want to work at. Seems pretty straight forward except getting a job in the industry is hard enough, looking for internships isn’t much easier. Few actually fit the beneficial role oppose (the wrong department, too far away, lack of skills) and the ones that do work for me, I don’t ever hear back from.
Another more modern option I could try is posting independent content online and while I do have the Wattpad page I’ve only recently started regularly using it after letting it sit for a few years. Same goes with my Celtx page which I only started using again because I needed to write a script for a script-pipeline contest. Why don’t I use them more often, writing is a very time-consuming job, chose to a school project/paper minus the results.
For the independent content, some suggest building a team or finding a partner which is easier said than done. One possible plus is that this semester upcoming I am going to be living on campus and final taking more classes in that are associated in my field. Maybe, I’ll be able to find some people who I can work with a partner-style? I might have already found one in one of my classes.
I think I might also need an artist; a lot of my primary original content ideas were live action and sitcom based. Although in the Past 2 years my ideas have been a lot more focused on animation-based shows, both cartoons, and anime. It’s why I took an interest in Comics in the first place. Now that I think about it, I’ve created concepts and stories for easily every type of genre. Months creators are lucky if they can Bring any of their ideas to life, let alone more than 1. Making small independent videos to post online is also difficult since based on the fact that I that most of my ideas are far too big for an independent college student to do.
I don’t know what to do, but this is what job at finders and career counselors are for right. I guess I know where I’ll be spending most of my time next semester. Or hey, maybe I’ll be that lucky 1 in a billion person who sells one of their 1st scripts or gets struck by lightning, around the same odds.
The Wannabe Writer 