I love stories

I love making up stories.

Sometimes they’re films, sometimes they’re books, sometimes they’re half-assed notions that don’t lead anywhere until they do.

I you know anything about writing you’ll know that half the time you have no idea what you’re doing.  It’s when you have no idea what you’re writing that the truth comes out.  Most of the time you just have to get yourself out of the way for the work to come.

I find it fascinating and frustrating.  I want to become better at telling stories.  Most of the snippets (and snipes) you’ll find on this site are thoughts and musings (and leaps of faith) as I work my way through my next projects, trying to become better at telling stories.

There’ll be urgent reminders and forgotten triggers, longshots and insights, prods and tips, and twists.

There’ll be stumbles, there’ll be falls.  There may even be tears.

There will be typods.

I don’t want to hide behind a wall of professionalism.  I don’t want to live in the no man’s land of objectivity.  (Honestly, I’ve had science and logic and reason to the point where the only reasonable thing to do is pack them in a box and put them away for a long, long time.)

We live in an age that is tearing us apart.  We’ve never been more connected technically, and more disconnected as people.

I don’t want there to be distance between us.

I want you to see what I see.

Background

“Boscutti’s Don Simpson Experience” was first written as a screenplay and was a competition finalist of Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Screenplay Contest. Now available as an online novel, Boscutti posts a new chapter a day and readers can sign up for free daily or weekly updates.

Stefano Boscutti lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He is the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for his play “Telecide.” He began his career as a newspaper journalist. After graduating with a postgraduate degree in film from Australia’s foremost film and television school, Boscutti wrote, directed and produced his first feature “Boscutti’s M.”