Butch aka Travis

Its 1:30am and I can’t sleep. My mind is going through a crisis, a writer’s crisis.

I don’t have writers bloc, I have writers un-bloc, I have dozens of scripts and story’s both in long and short form pouring into my brain, but my ‘mediocrity‘ filter that sits somewhere between my ideas thyroid and my typing finger is full. I have a head full of ideas and not one I am happy with, basically, I am in writers hell.

I am being a little too dramatic, there are a few I am happy with. I am concentrating on making a really really good expensive short film, but the short film syndrome is killing me. Its the TWIST! the TWIST the goddamn hokey pokey TWIST that every short film maker incorporates into their scripts. I am beginning to hate the motherfucking twist (a clever turn of wit, much like Moliere I am still partial too, but the TWIST, which explains everything, I am not a fan of)

Jennie watched a short film the other day which I detest, yet she liked it.. “Why” I asked “Why do you like this unsophisticated, terribly dialogued waste of binary code” I yelled. She replied, “Its got a good TWIST“. I passed out and woke up several hours later on the lounge room floor. “What’s going on?” I asked myself “Had Chubby Checker thrown in the music and taken up writing short film scripts?”

Then I lead onto more concerns. Am I pretentious? Have I become a pretentious filmmaker thereby alienating myself completely from my peers and audience?

So there I go, I start writing this idea down, but then I broke out into a cold sweat, my fingers trembled, blood poured from my lips from my biting down on then, I felt nauseous, what was wrong with me? I realised something, I was not heading towards any TWIST, but to a concise ending!! Was this idea therefore ruined? Was my planned meeting with the funding body to make this mini masterpiece now undermined thanks to the lack of a (even half decent) twist, and my undeserved pretentiousness?

I also fear, that after the fantastic twist in a little short film called Old Man Time, that I have reached such a high calibre of a TWIST, it is hard to push the boundaries any further.

I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.