Hello readers, new friends, old friends, future colleagues or random human who is surprised to find themselves on my website, you are all welcome, and if no one is reading this, that's okay too! It's been a rather long time since my last post and those last few were somewhat coerced out of me by being a requirement for a uni assignment, so it's been even longer since I wrote out of pure choice, but I felt now would be a good time to begin writing again. If you wonder why that might be, take a look at the name of my blog, 'A New Chapter'... Throughout my life I have often turned to writing when I find myself approaching or at a turning point, (hence the cheesy title) I have a love of writing and I find it an incredibly guiding tool to processing my emotions and experiences as I navigate unknown territories. It also gives me an outlet for my dramatic nature and love of metaphors!
So what crossroads am at now, you might ask? New job? New city? Or have I bought another one way ticket to the other side of the world? Well it's not the latter, though I am finally escaping England (after far too long) for a break away in Portugal next week! But, I've found a home in Liverpool and it's here in this eclectic city when I plan to remain based for the foreseeable future. So no big moving plans, no the new chapter I face is career related, which is so exciting but also insanely nerve wracking too! In the summer of 2020 when it appeared that this covid thing wasn't going anywhere fast I decided to finally get a degree and that September I began my accelerated program in Liverpool. It's been an incredible, confidence boosting expereince and wow how time has flown, in 3 months time I will have completed my degree! Which means 2 things:
1. The next several months will be filled with reseraching, writing, referencing and producing my longest short film yet.
2. I have to face the question: What Next?
It's a scary thing having a security blanket removed, however, (as you would learn if you ever went though my blogging history) I am a big believer in stepping out of your comfort zone, it is in this place of the unknown that creativity excels and growth and opportunities arise. So when that security blanket starts getting to comfy, throwing it off (out of choice or not) is often the best thing you can do! But that isn't always easy, but the fear of it is always worse than actually doing it, so it's good to find a support mechanism and place of encouragement and accountability. Blogging is one way that I like to build accountability and process my thoughts and fears through change. You might be thinking, surely you've got enough writing to be doing over the next few months, why pick up blogging again now? However, I find that writing inspires writing, and I have found during the course of my degree that there's an awful lot of academic bullshit to navigate in academic writing so I need an outlet to pour out my passions and personal opinions that have been strictly banned from my dissertation! *dramatic eye-roll*
Being sassy to cope with academic writing
I've chosen a hypothesis and an accompanying film that will be very relevant to my future career and the films I hope to make. I will be writing here regularly with updates on the film's progress and about the research I discover and my own thoughts on the subject. I hope that processing the journey this way, will help find an answer to that scary but exciting question of what next!
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