I, Jake love to write, its a long term goal.

We all have goals, short term and long term, I'm no different. Identifying those goals is one thing and knowing how to reach and achieve them is another. In most cases ones long term goal would be the pinnacle of years of studying in a chosen subject or multiple subjects or could be part time, voluntary or full time work in the smaller picture with the aim of this work culminating into the bigger picture.
 
From a personal standpoint my long term goal is to become a writer, preferably a comedy writer for television. Working for a successful sitcom being my big dream come true. I've grown up watching endless repeats of modern day classics like The Simpson's, that has not only been voted the greatest sitcom of all time but the best animation and television program to ever grace our screens. I've become an admirer of how the writers often mix humour with a serious story or a meaningful moral and bring out the importance of family, however dysfunctional that family may be. Family guy is another animation that I have watched regularly over the past four to five years and its safe to say its late night air time is no surprise. The creator Seth Macfarlane seeks his laughs by pushing boundaries that family friendly shows don't dare mess with. The stories can often be crazy to say the least and include offensive jokes accompanied by fore head crinkling twisted scenes but that's the reason people tune in, its a guaranteed thirty minutes of laughs. I respect Seth's assertiveness to shock, not caring about a battering ram of complaints and doing what he loves to do.
 
Writing can be monogamous at times, worrying about whether your dialogue is believable or interesting. Often losing sleep trying to think of how you can distance your script as far as possible from the film that inspired in the first place and cringing at the repetitiveness of the characters and description in hope that others will believe the world you have created. That is the hard part, trying to bring the stories and characters that you have created in your head to life and hope they are as original as when you first thought of them. There is always that one person who is more than happy to point out that your once moneymaking plot or characters have been in a film that no one has ever heard of. Shame on them.
 
 I carry the same mentality that all aspiring writers have, you got to believe in your creations and stick by them. The belief you express when you talk about or write your script will have a positive impact on the quality of the end product.

 I took that exact action last year when I had written an outline for a thirty minute television drama we had to write as part of my University course and from the first word of the outline to the last it got a beating on an extreme level. Despite being told to take out two of the main characters, change the location from a prison, not to include Elton John and don't let the second half of the script be a dream by my protagonist who is dying I didn't change one thing. Was I stupid for doing so? Or was I right to give my script a chance and  remain confident in the finished piece? It turns out I was right, the script got praised by lecturers and students alike and its still talked about almost a year on. One lecturer went as far as saying she "loves my dialogue" and that I'm a "very good comedy writer", not bad for a script that was ambushed at the first hurdle. I'm not naive or stubborn  enough to think that all my ideas are going to work, I do and will spend time evaluating my scripts thoroughly over and over and I am more than willing to rewrite or change whatever I must to enhance the script. But in this particular case they did and that's because the originality aspect was fresh and fun to read as well as surprising page after page.
 
Writing above all else gives me the freedom to express myself. Its a hobby at the current moment in my life and is also compulsory as part of my degree but a long term goal of mine is to make writing a career, getting paid to do something I love is not a bad career path if I so say so myself. It's important for me in the next couple of years whilst I am still studying to further my ability in scriptwriting and to learn the process of constructing a successful screenplay. I intend to go ahead with many of the ideas I have conjured up in my head over the years and to see if they work or not, if so I live in hope that one of my scripts is one day turned into a television program.
 
This is Jake and you have been reading my latest blog about my main long term goal. Thanks a bunch. Until my next blog, good day.