“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” –Carl Jung
I took a class during my last semester of college that was truly scary yet exciting. The class was Adapting the Short Story to Screenplay, and it was such a learning experience. I loved peeking into the world of script writing.
The class really piqued my interest in screenwriting, and it’s amazing how many movies have been adapted from short stories. The screenplay turned into something a lot darker than what I had wanted, but that’s fine! Just keep writing, and it will turn into something beautiful. Or, terrifying. Either way, it’s so thrilling!
The Jung quote was something that kept coming to mind as I wrote the story. Like how the things that shape us are often buried so deep that we don’t even realize what truly drives us. Or, we know and are just afraid to acknowledge them.
I believe writing is a way to peek into the darkness inside yourself. Writing allows you to make a reluctant friendship with your shadow-self, and use him/her to create something beautiful, while not destroying your whole self in the process.
Sometimes the shadows and the darkness are your friends. Just don’t linger too long.
Goodnight,
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