CONNORLOWE
Who am I?
My name is Connor Lowe
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I am currently at university and it was here that I really started my journey as a writer. I study a theatre course at university.
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Writing for me is all about the incredible feeling of telling a story that just makes people feel things. If something I have written can make someone smile, cry or anything in-between I will be proud of that writing.
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I enjoy writing in my spare time but I want to pursue a career writing scripts and books
How did it all begin?
On the course I am currently on there is a module on scriptwriting. In this module we were given parameters within which we had to write a scene, only a few pages and the topic and story was up to us. I had written some stuff in secondary school but that was for A level drama and was in collaboration with a group of people, so for me this was my first solo project. Although it is arguable that this first exercise on this module didn't really matter for me it kick-started something that is beginning to become a big part of my life. So, I wrote a short scene about a teenager who had to tell his younger brother that he was leaving because their alcoholic mother had kicked him out. I watched as it was acted out by my classmates, script in hand. It looked like I had imagined it would go and when they finished I looked out to the rest of our class watching and I was shocked to see several people in tears. Now I feel like I should have felt bad as I had made several people I had known for a very short amount of time feel so sad they were crying in class but the opposite is in fact what happened. I saw tears rolling down their faces at something I had wrote and I felt so happy. It was this feeling and that moment where I knew I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.
