My OperaMonday, October 1, 2012 2:21:01 PM
This Is Me!
At first, it sounds somehow pleasantly strange that I can have the chance to present my writing to the world without having to go a long, rigorous way of publishing but through the Internet. Words! I love words! I love to write anything from fictions to non-fictions. I guess everything started through the passion to write something down after reading a lot of books while growing up. I still love to read a lot. I remember my first work – A Matter of Love – which was based on a true life story about my first experience of love. I remember I wrote the story farther into the future with the two of us getting married at the end of the day. (You know those ‘All Is Well That Ends Well’ stories that old folks told us when we were kids). Only that the end of my story was far from the reality that thrust me in the face later.
Well, that did not stop me from writing more stories. It is as if I am haunted by it. Day after day, I discovered I was so much into writing. Before I finished college, I had written many short stories and a few poems. Actually, a particular mate of mine made it possible for me to go a long way with my writing in the college. She would always come each morning to collect what I had written the previous evening and return it back before the close of the day. I found out I wanted to impress her with my story by cleverly introducing twists and turns in it. What she did not know is that she actually helped me to finish that story which I titled Nothing Lasts Forever.
I had never written anything about stage play before. Well, I did not know much about it. But when I got admission into the university, I wrote my first play in my second year. I was essentially motivated my one of my lecturers then. After going through the rigorous activities of producing plays for the theatre, I was able to write my first play. It was a large crowd play with the setting in the 18th Century Yoruba country in African. I titled it Princess of Araba. The play was the talk of the town all through my study before I graduated. I discovered too that of all the other seven more plays that I wrote and worked through the stage, none has that singular aura of spectacles and glamour than Princess of Araba. For me, I cannot say if it because it is a love story that ends with tragedy.
I got my first screenwriting job when I was doing my final year examination in the university. The job was a great eye opener for me. I was able to learn, as I did the job, about screenplay. Since then, it’s been from one TV sitcoms to serial to film. The world of creativity is quite a challenging one but it’s been great to learn as you work.
Now, coming down to the Internet to write, I feel like fulfilling another side of me writing about my creativity world. It is a world I have tried as much as possible to live very simple. I had made my writing simple and clear all the way. There is no point in trying to impress people by writing vocabularies, so says one of my editors. Well, to the folks out there, I want to say that this is me!
At first, it sounds somehow pleasantly strange that I can have the chance to present my writing to the world without having to go a long, rigorous way of publishing but through the Internet. Words! I love words! I love to write anything from fictions to non-fictions. I guess everything started through the passion to write something down after reading a lot of books while growing up. I still love to read a lot. I remember my first work – A Matter of Love – which was based on a true life story about my first experience of love. I remember I wrote the story farther into the future with the two of us getting married at the end of the day. (You know those ‘All Is Well That Ends Well’ stories that old folks told us when we were kids). Only that the end of my story was far from the reality that thrust me in the face later.
Well, that did not stop me from writing more stories. It is as if I am haunted by it. Day after day, I discovered I was so much into writing. Before I finished college, I had written many short stories and a few poems. Actually, a particular mate of mine made it possible for me to go a long way with my writing in the college. She would always come each morning to collect what I had written the previous evening and return it back before the close of the day. I found out I wanted to impress her with my story by cleverly introducing twists and turns in it. What she did not know is that she actually helped me to finish that story which I titled Nothing Lasts Forever.
I had never written anything about stage play before. Well, I did not know much about it. But when I got admission into the university, I wrote my first play in my second year. I was essentially motivated my one of my lecturers then. After going through the rigorous activities of producing plays for the theatre, I was able to write my first play. It was a large crowd play with the setting in the 18th Century Yoruba country in African. I titled it Princess of Araba. The play was the talk of the town all through my study before I graduated. I discovered too that of all the other seven more plays that I wrote and worked through the stage, none has that singular aura of spectacles and glamour than Princess of Araba. For me, I cannot say if it because it is a love story that ends with tragedy.
I got my first screenwriting job when I was doing my final year examination in the university. The job was a great eye opener for me. I was able to learn, as I did the job, about screenplay. Since then, it’s been from one TV sitcoms to serial to film. The world of creativity is quite a challenging one but it’s been great to learn as you work.
Now, coming down to the Internet to write, I feel like fulfilling another side of me writing about my creativity world. It is a world I have tried as much as possible to live very simple. I had made my writing simple and clear all the way. There is no point in trying to impress people by writing vocabularies, so says one of my editors. Well, to the folks out there, I want to say that this is me!
Bode Alaominibode # Monday, October 1, 2012 2:24:48 PM