Tea & Noodles

Free Writing 1# Trouble at work. I had to help. Only four hours. It's just a job.  I needed to be more presentable. Trouble with my appearance.  Why is my hair blue? Where have you all gone? Help.  I'm lost, you're lost. Blue.  Photographers everywhere why? Free Writing 2# If I could climb, I think I can see the star. So bright above me. Close but almost out of reach. I need the star. It calls for a wish. I need to find some height, a ladder, chair, there's nothing but the dark, looming. I hear voices. Dangerous voices. I need the star to survive. So I can go home. I hope I can go home...the star is dying out - I'm just out of reach now, reach! then gone. Dark.  **** Creative writing left me buzzing yesterday even though there were only four members (even our leader was missing!) but we did get to try something that I have never tried before. Free writing. A way of writing almost mindlessly and letting your brain wonder. It's a li...

Hello guys and girls! I hope you're all well. I wanted to write to wave my hand to say I'm still here, just a busy bee. Currently I'm working on a few different ideas for a play/short film due to a brief we were given last week at creative writing by an ex media practice student and it's set my pants on fire with creativity. It has to be based around an invention, and so name for my invention is currently a "psi-transducer" and if all goes well I'll let you know more about it soon! Also, on another note I'm working at current as a script editor for a marketing film being made for the business "Nazcar Networks" with my flatmate Jamie Iles. Life sure does keep me busy! Here's a question for you: What books/films/plays remind you of Christmas? Mine is the Muppets Christmas Carol, and the BFG animated film due to having both films recorded on VCR. Speak to you soon!

Creative Writing was brilliant last night and I got to draw some of my co-writers (which you can see on mu other blog) but it did leave me wondering about my own favourite characters and why I like them, and also why I like character more than I like plot. This is of course just an observation: after all, we are only a couple of people in a wooden and spacious room, but we came to a very sound conclusion about characters, and specifically some main characters. We decided surprisingly that boring characters are what usually make up our main characters. Why? Because we have to be able to replace them in our own personalities to be able to be in that situation. We discovered this with a few examples we discussed and apparently it's known apparently as "The Batman Effect" where a character is actually rather boring, but the setting, the plot and the characters surrounding them are actually far more interesting. So despite the fact the series has been with me with childh...

Peaceful? This place? The unnerving white walls, the people staring down from portraits of years past - bearing into my soul. They call this place a sanctuary. I call it a prison.  Destiny they call it. Destiny of the one to fight the dragons. An honour, a privilege to die for the world. A world that exists in ignorance.  Well I've had enough. Let someone else fight for you - to die for you! I don't want this, didn't want it at the beginning and still don't want it now. This peer pressure to do the right thing. What is the right thing?  What have these people done for me that makes it okay to die for them?  It's peaceful now. The screams. The fires of a fight that is no longer mine. You go save yourselves, that's right. I'm having no part in this and I will watch the world burn as a spectator. Even if I have to burn myself. Besides, it's better to burn in peace isn't it? *** This is what happens in my head when you play 8 awes...

Okay, so I was late - but it was just a meeting, a meeting between strangers, about strangers whom we serve everyday. I uneasily sat down, my eyes wandering to look at the group around me. It's not that we're never met, that would be a lie - but in the world of work, of service we provide the faces that look upon me now are masks, an illusion of reality. You really have to look to realize the truth. "Sorry I'm late," I begin to announce. The seat I've taken is cheap and tacky and the boss rolls his eyes in my direction. "Your funeral," he said eyes returning to his paperwork. "Besides, it's not me you should be apologising to" Of course not. The girl on my bosses right was giving me daggers, repeatedly, and I can only assume due to her...skimpy attire that I was keeping her from a very important date. Well f*** me sideways, I've become the white rabbit in all of this. "Well like I said on the phone" I repeat to the crowd, ...

It is very interesting that despite my animation career I have stumbled upon the road of writing, and it has in the past few months made me struggle in knowing how to define myself when asked. Even the term "define myself" seems a little melodramatic, but as an ex student who's been asked quite a few times whilst serving coffee's what I do I stumble on how to reply. I'm not specifically a writer (yet) due to never being formally trained and of course the lack of publishing credentials don't help. Artistically, despite the last six years I've spent training in drawing and animation I only feel now that the drawings and scribbles I do are only really for me to visualize the color or a character I'm trying to portray through words. In my heart I would like to say that I'm a director without the spine, an artist without the skill and a writer without the credits, so I guess that defines me simply as a "creative". Someone who loves to crea...

Hello! If you have stumbled upon this blog, or rather I've told you it exists, I expect you'd like to know what it's actually about. This blog is to write about my experiences, opinions and maybe even some short fiction that I like to dabble in, hence the title: Stuff Soph Wrote. I am Sophie, or "Soph" for short, and I'm a recent graduate in Animation from the University of the West of England, Bristol. I really enjoyed my course which I'd been working towards since my teens, but by my third year I found myself hungering for words and stories far more than I did for animation production. So here I am, still being creative, dabbling in full time work in the world of coffee and in my spare time I will be writing here. I hope you enjoy your stay!