Over the last two days I have taken part in a Genre Scriptwriting course with Stephen Cleary from Arista Development. He is a fantastic teacher with a quick, analytical brain that can pull apart a story and see what is working and what isn't in seconds. It is really inspiring to see someone so immersed in story and so assured of the importance of the role of the storyteller. Storytellers help us to reflect on ourselves, on our mistakes, on our regrets, on our desires, on our hopes. Stories excite us, scare us, challenge us.
I was particularly inspired by Stephen's analysis of the horror genre. I am not a fan of slasher horror or horror porn (gratuitous violence for the sake of it). But I do love the dark, the wild, the unknown. I have a horror film sloshing around in my head - it is a low budget sci fi horror to be shot in the small town of Maydena on the frontier of the Tasmanian wilderness.
It is hard to find time to do justice to all my projects, stay sane, have a social life, exercise, eat well etc. Some big things like writing another feature film script get pushed to the side as more immediate needs of clients, work and life eclipse my time. But Stephen's workshop has help to fertilise the seedling of my sci-fi horror story, and I can feel it now growing and twisting through the cracks of my mind down into my arm and onto paper.
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