First Day at the Office of Letters and Light

It is the very first day of my internship with Script Frenzy and what do you know, they're already making me write. I'm a little nervous but mostly excited to be here.  As an English student at UC Berkeley, I'm used to doing a lot of writing, but this is actually my very first blog post ever—which I realize is pretty strange for someone in their 20s. Anyways, I hope I'm doing this right.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in Santa Cruz, California, one of the greatest places on the West Coast, or let's face it, the world. I've always felt very at home in Northern California and I've been bouncing around the Bay Area since high school.  But I'm graduating from Cal this Spring and I plan on relocating to East Coast so I'm trying to mentally prepare myself for "seasons," meaning snow in the winter and humidity in the summer. What are you supposed to wear in July when it's 80 degrees out and raining?

I realized how much I love literature when I was in the fourth grade and I read Louis Sachar's novel Holes, after ordering it from the Scholastic catalog. Looking back, I'm not sure what about the book got me so darn excited but I absolutely loved it. I can remember telling the entire story to my mom over the course of an afternoon and asking her, "Isn't it genius how it all comes together?" After my brief obsession with Holes came a much longer obsession with the Harry Potter series. By the time I left elementary school, Sachar and Rowling had turned me into an avid novel reader. Although it was not until high school that I began to cultivate a more sophisticated appreciation of literature, I've known since the fourth grade that I want to work with readers and writers, which is why I'm so thrilled to begin my internship with the Office of Letters and Light.

I'm really looking forward to getting to know the OLL staffers over the course of my internship and to begin my first attempt at scriptwriting.

– Jessie