A FUNNY THING HAPPENED...

I wrote it down in my notebook, hoping that (as with many of my ideas) they leave my head once committed to paper.

It didn’t.

Now I am a firm believer in writing what you want to write, what you have a passion for. That’s the only way you’re going to be successful at writing. So I hashed a story. I wanted to write this film, my mind wanted it to get out. I took it as an exercise in writing what’s in your heart. The detective story was there and would continue to be there.

But a funny thing happened.

As I mentioned in my last post, I started writing a Tron fan film.

Now I immediately tried to dispel any notion of making a Tron short. For one, while I have (a modicum of) talent, the creative drive to make films and passion, I lack in time and the tech to make it. So I tried to make it go away.

It didn’t.

I wrote it down in my notebook, hoping that (as with many of my ideas) they leave my head once committed to paper.

It didn’t.

Now I am a firm believer in writing what you want to write, what you have a passion for. That’s the only way you’re going to be successful at writing. So I hashed a story. I wanted to write this film, my mind wanted it to get out. I took it as an exercise in writing what’s in your heart. The detective story was there and would continue to be there.

During my daily internet search routine, I checked out the Geeks of Doom site. They had a video and a link to Revolights. They were lights that were placed on your bicycle wheels and gave it the impression of a Tron lightcycle.

I also saw two Tron fan films on YouTube. One made very well on a $5,000 budget and one made on tools I currently own. Wasn’t as high quality as the first one, but it was pretty good.

I found a way to make it. So I got to writing.

It’s amazing how these things all come together. Maybe I am supposed to make this film. Maybe this isn’t a random idea. Perhaps, as CLU said in Tron Legacy: “it’s my destiny”.