Author R.A. Gasparac

I remember the moment I knew I was meant to be a writer. Before then I knew I WANTED to be a writer, but it wasn’t until that one day I confirmed it. All my life I have been writing, wether it was on something, or inside my head. I would make up stories about people I would see walking on the street, and had no idea as a child that was not normal.

Oddly enough it first occurred when I completed my first screenplay, and received feedback from the actress I wanted to star as the lead. A little bit of info about that project was that it was a zombie film. This actress had seen her fair share of B Horror scripts before her and she would frequently pass. She loved my screenplay and wanted to talk about how I developed it.

She told me I had obscene writing talent, and depth. Here’s why. That script was my process of coping with my fathers death. I chose to write about cancer as the Zombie horde, and chose to stress the interpersonal relationships between characters in an abstract fashion. I also took the time to turn generic tropes of the Genera around.

So I challenge you to look at your writing with new critical eyes. If the underlying conflict isn’t breaking your heart a bit, tweak it until it does.