SRapi
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Post by SRapi on Feb 16, 2016 0:14:01 GMT
Yeah, I much prefer being behind the camera than in front. But good on you for getting extra work, anything to go on the resume can help. It's just so difficult to make a mark in the creative field, as there's literally thousands of people who want the same job you want.
Often times the struggle with writing prevents me from even starting. I used to write much more frequently, but now I'm lucky if work on my script once a week, and even then I'm never happy with what I write. It's so hard to satisfy yourself, let alone other people! But like you said, persistency is key.
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Post by Rusty Red Scrap Iron on Feb 16, 2016 12:09:18 GMT
Yeah, I much prefer being behind the camera than in front. But good on you for getting extra work, anything to go on the resume can help. It's just so difficult to make a mark in the creative field, as there's literally thousands of people who want the same job you want. Often times the struggle with writing prevents me from even starting. I used to write much more frequently, but now I'm lucky if work on my script once a week, and even then I'm never happy with what I write. It's so hard to satisfy yourself, let alone other people! But like you said, persistency is key. I know what you mean, but bear in mind out of those thousands of people - probably about half of them would only want to do one thing, and when they can't get anywhere with it they quit the field and venture down a complete different path. That's why I enjoy working as a Supporting Artist, because at least its in the field of work that I enjoy - even if its not exactly what I want to do. I even been down that road various times, but you just have to think of what you can bring to the table where others would think that you were completely bonkers to do it. For example, and I'm not sure if you're a Gerry Anderson fan, but when I think Spectrum that he created for Captain Scarlet - if that occurred nowadays, anyone would think you're nuts for coming up with an organisation where each agent is name ranked via colour. For me, that's is something that's both unique and quite inspiring at the same time. Plus with your writing, it sounds like that you need to find that source of inspiration that can help influence you into writing stories based around that source. The late Walt Disney did just that with his passion for the World of Animals as he felt that the best way to educate was to entertain.
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Post by Metamorphical on Feb 19, 2016 5:34:05 GMT
Interesting thread. I guess I was ambitionless before I got laid off from my old job. I guess I got complacent which is a bad place to be and stayed in that place for a long time. I've had many ambitions throughout my life but I never follow through or lose sight of them.
One old ambition would be to start my own technology forum, but the world is so full of those. Another would be to write a book. I've got many ideas including one that has been with me since I was in the 5th grade and is inspired by my fascination of unique close mentor/friendship/ even parent-like relationships between very different people and my love of complex mythos. But my English isn't so good and neither is my attention span. Yet another would be to travel to Africa someday and see a place like the Masai Mara, The Okavango, or Kruger. I also have ambition to one day be directly involved in the restoration of a steam locomotive to operational condition instead of just being a donating railfan or painting a static display.
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SRapi
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Post by SRapi on Feb 21, 2016 3:59:27 GMT
Yeah, I much prefer being behind the camera than in front. But good on you for getting extra work, anything to go on the resume can help. It's just so difficult to make a mark in the creative field, as there's literally thousands of people who want the same job you want. Often times the struggle with writing prevents me from even starting. I used to write much more frequently, but now I'm lucky if work on my script once a week, and even then I'm never happy with what I write. It's so hard to satisfy yourself, let alone other people! But like you said, persistency is key. I know what you mean, but bear in mind out of those thousands of people - probably about half of them would only want to do one thing, and when they can't get anywhere with it they quit the field and venture down a complete different path. That's why I enjoy working as a Supporting Artist, because at least its in the field of work that I enjoy - even if its not exactly what I want to do. I even been down that road various times, but you just have to think of what you can bring to the table where others would think that you were completely bonkers to do it. For example, and I'm not sure if you're a Gerry Anderson fan, but when I think Spectrum that he created for Captain Scarlet - if that occurred nowadays, anyone would think you're nuts for coming up with an organisation where each agent is name ranked via colour. For me, that's is something that's both unique and quite inspiring at the same time. Plus with your writing, it sounds like that you need to find that source of inspiration that can help influence you into writing stories based around that source. The late Walt Disney did just that with his passion for the World of Animals as he felt that the best way to educate was to entertain. I am indeed a fan, though I haven't seen that show. But I know what you mean. I currently work in a job that's involved in the film industry, but it's not where I want to stay. But I'm glad to have a job that's at least somewhat related to what I want to do. And thanks for the writing advice. I usually try to write about what inspires me, but I think then it gets a little to lecturey.
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Post by fireboxcooking on Mar 26, 2016 20:42:00 GMT
My life goal, I'd love to work in film, directing and writing, but I could also go for writing books and such. I'd love to get my novel ideas out, but for now graduation high school and maybe getting some scholar ships in the processes are more my speed
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Two Red Engines
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Post by Two Red Engines on May 1, 2016 21:18:26 GMT
Me, I just want to be a writer (or failing that, a primary teacher will do). I also totally want to have a family, and carry on with my trains!
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Post by Studio BRUNEL on Sept 26, 2017 6:28:43 GMT
I'm currently writing a series of novels that I hope to get published some day. I aim for its feel to be a mixture between a long-running manga series and something on Netflix.
So my novels are set around the life of a young man named Nemisis Omen. Omen is a genetically-modified mercenary and freedom fighter with a Cockney accent, Australian leather hat and such good looks and charm that almost every woman he meets fall head over heels for him, to his dismay.
At the age of three, his mother, who was a WW2 hero, is murdered right in front of him, and he is abducted by other super soldiers under the orders of a megalomaniacal high-ranking Soviet official, Shadow Field Marshall I. V. Romanov. After an intense three-day period of modifications that includes severe abuse of many kinds, Omen escapes from his captors and ends up in the care of yet another one of the operatives of Romanov's private military company that falls under Soviet jurisdiction, Project: Nemisis. The operative is a beautiful blonde East German woman named Femme, who herself came from a grim childhood, for she was the result of a sadistic Neo-Nazi eugenics experiment.
Reeling from having being forced to kill her boyfriend some years before, she instantly becomes attached to Omen, and raises him as a surrogate son. Omen is subsequently trained as a child soldier, performing all kinds of wetwork for the Russians throughout the 1970s. Femme, over time, begins to have romantic feelings for Omen, who is thirteen years younger than her. This comes to a head when she is kidnapped by Mujahedeen resistance fighters in Afghanistan in 1980 during the chaos surrounding the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the previous year.
Omen, only ten years old at the time, and at the risk of being executed for treason by Romanov, manages to track her kidnappers down and gun them all down, rescuing Femme in the process. It is here that Femme, now utterly in love with him, gives him a Australian kangaroo leather hat as a gift as a sign of his maturity. The two promptly begin a relationship, that lasts for six years until a most horrible fate awaits them.
Romanov learns that the two are planning to defect, and thus sends Omen on a final mission, which is rigged to end with his death. He is sent to a gulag to murder its entire population of tens of thousands of inmates. Horrified, Omen instead kills the guards there and plots a break out, which is thwarted when Romanov launches a nuclear missile at the Gulag, killing everyone there while simultaneously ordering the execution of Femme. However, a mysterious group known as the Harpy Undegrund attacks the execution ground at the last minute and Femme disappears without a trace, presumed dead.
Omen miraculously survives the nuclear blast, but vows to kill Romanov in revenge for Femme's death. He makes a deal with Lucifer, an agent of Satan, who gifts him with demonic powers. He spends the next two years training and arming himself for an opportunity to take down Romanov and the Soviet Union with it. It is now 1988, and after a period spent in Chicago as a vigilante, Omen runs into his tortured past head-on, and decides now is the time to strike. Armed with several types of weaponry, a heavily-modified 1970 Dodge Charger R/T, and accompanied by his best friend and partner in crime, a disgruntled young woman named Olga, Omen starts his own private war, which makes him many enemies and eventually snowballs into a devastating world conflict.
These are the events that unfold in the first novel of the series; NEMISIS: THE BLACK MOUNTAIN CLAN. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PHEW! That was a big one. But yeah, I've been working on it for over a year now. I've also planned out a further fourteen novels to be released afterwards, and all contain historical, political and philosophical themes. Not to mention, it's probably a much-more mature version of One Piece, one of my favourite mangas. Hopefully, it gets its own anime some day. Hope you've enjoyed reading about it!
-PhantomPayne
(P.S. Speaking of Phantom Payne, in case you didn't know, he's also a character in my novel! A stereotypical washed up private eye detective with a voice like Humphrey Bogart's. Not to mention he is a drunken, womanising idiot, and butts heads with Omen several times throughout the series.)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2018 14:59:41 GMT
I had lots of life ambitions when I was younger. I have always had a love of trains and steam engines especially. I wanted to drive them on the main line. I also wanted to be a pilot after I read my first Biggles book which was Biggles in the Orient. It set off a passion for the RAF and for the old aircraft. I collected over 50 Biggles books (there was 98 published!) and I learnt a fair deal about aircraft like the Spitfire, Hurricane and earlier aircraft like the Camel and the SE5a, Albatross and the Fokker Dreidecker. I had flying lessons out of Carlisle Airport which was ace! G-BTDW was the reg of the little Cessna. I believe one of the instructors owns it and it is still there. Good to know. I get sentimental about stuff like that. I love my heritage and history. I think that is why I cannot wait to start my next project. Work wise I work in heavy engineering as a machinist. It's interesting work and I went back to college and became a "mature" apprentice when I started the job. I took it on because I knew it would help me in my hobbies. I volunteer at two preserved railways. It is great fun. I am a trainee driver at one railway and a fireman at another. I suppose I am achieving one of my life goals.
However the biggest life ambition for me was to try and own my steam engine. I can tick that off now. I own an Andrew Barclay but it has sparked what I believe will be my biggest ambition to date and one I want to achieve and that is getting the engine to run again. So far I am still stripping it down and working on the parts to get them back to working condition. There is a lot to do but I am slowly getting there. The thread about the engine is under Real Railways. Restoration of British Gypsum. Please take a look.
Then I start my next project....my Series I Land Rover!
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DukeSR8
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Post by DukeSR8 on Aug 19, 2018 1:45:15 GMT
Hmmm...I've always wanted to drive James when I was a kid but since thats obviously impossible and my favorite character has changed, to drive Prince. Obviously never going to happen as A. I don't live in the UK and B. I don't know anything about a locomotive's controls. There's also the obvious issue that the Ffestinog most likely won't use him(yes, I consider Prince a male. You can thank TTTE for making me think engines have genders) for driver for a fiver/driver's experience or whatever its called. Also hoping to get an apartment and make a small layout at some point.
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