How I Lived Before I Died
Back to something a little sluttier, but also a little more depressing.
After finishing (but before graduating) my Masters, I realised I was in an incredibly reflective period of my life. I’d lost one grandparent during the pandemic, and another during my Masters degree. My own living situation had also drastically changed. My housemate of five years had bought a house, meaning I was considering a whole different way of living.
I was also, perhaps unsurprisingly to some, exceptionally depressed.
All these things culminated in a script that was never a serious project, operating more as a narrative stream of consciousness. In all honesty, I don’t remember where this script was going to go, if anywhere. I have vague memories of a diary motif, an angle involving an actual depression plotline, and crippling sexual fear. Yet, somehow, from that, this sweet scene was borne of two friends that know each other so intimately they can speak without words, and when they do speak, they are free to do so without filter.
So much of this project influenced another one further on in this list, but it’s still a nice read (at least for me).
Madala’s Grace
I previously mentioned that I’d initially intended to use my Masters to push my writing into other mediums, chiefly prose. While I ended up writing a play, I haven’t let my prose idea go.
Madala’s Grace will, time and talent permitting, be my fantasy epic. The world of the story changes with each passing moment, but the core character of Paterik and his ultimate journey have remained the same. Based partially on Greek myth, but warped into a completely fictional world, the story of Madala’s Grace is intended to be told on an epic scale.
That means, of course, it’s going to take a lot of bloody work to get right. I haven’t drafted anything new in quite some time as other projects (I’ll come on to them) have taken priority, but here is a brief excerpt of my most recent draft.
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