I Laugh

[queenoftheskies]

My daughter, who is going into art/CGI special effects/video game design, is...obviously...very into video games. So are the people she hangs with.

Fine. I love video games too, and have some ideas she's going to help me develop when she finishes college/design school.

Anyway, back when I first started screenwriting and I wanted to master the format and techniques of adaptation, one of my favorite exercises was to take video games I loved and turn them into screenplays.

I knew I could never market them, but I enjoyed it, and I felt it was good practice for me as I learned screenwriting.

My daughter wasn't really interested in them at that point, but something in her brain remembered that I'd done it and she told her friends recently, thinking it was really cool.

Well, they thought it was way past cool and suddenly, they all wanted to see these old screenplays. One young man wants to learn how to write screenplays himself.

So, all of the sudden, she asks if she can copy all these old video game screenplays (Final Fantasy 7, Metroid, A Link to the Past...that's all I can remember, though I might have done Final Fantasy 2 and 3 as well) onto CD and take them to show her friends.

Last night, she asked to use my laptop and I discovered her in the living room going through screenplays on my laptop, cause I have my screenwriting software on that computer as well.

I was rather flattered. But, oh, I could do so much better now. :)