Daniyal The Writer

 As initially i was planning to make a podcast video based on short-film on the same topic i wrote the story on. As in my opinion i could have added more energy and feelings for the audience to relate through the video as the topic itself is about feeling. So to convey the message properly the feeling and emotions are very much required, which in my opinion could have been more effectively added by making a video and acting in them. Although i tried my best to put life in the writing but i still think there is a lot of room for improvement. Personally, i am not that happy with my last project but still keeping in mind that i have had some delay due to health issues , i think i tried my best for the best possible outcome and i am satisfied with the efforts i put in.

Writing a story was like a dream coming true for me. I always had plans to write a story but due to my procrastination habit and lack of consistency i never was able to write one. Finally, for the project when i got to know we have to write a story i was very happy. This project did help me a lot to improve my writing skills, especially on an academic level with proper research. The story i wrote did motivated me a lot to start writing some more fictional stories based on or related to true events happening so i can make content relatable for the audience and to make sure there is some sort of awareness or improvement in society about the social and political affairs now a days through my writings.

 Being a person who never had an experience of professional photography. To be fairly honest, Although, being a media student for a long time this project was the first time I actually used a DSLR camera to click a photo. The experience was great and fantastic. I learned to control and change simple but different settings of the camera according to the surrounding environment. Well at least i can do basic photography with a DSLR and can capture some amazing clicks. 

 While making the biteable video, in the beginning i had some doubts that how will i describe and explain my skills as a professional. But, with the help of tutor and after using some technical terms to describe the particular set of skills i have, i was very much satisfied with the result. Although, i know there is a lot that can be added but as i am still learning a lot, Thus there will be a lot to add later on while i will be stepping in my professional life.

 To upload the final flipbook embedded code on my website, i first selected Pages and Menu option and added a blank page on to my gallery. I named it as the title of my book. Then i selected Add elements option, embedded code and selected embedded HTML as this is the format I've my flipbook embedded code in. Then i pasted the copied link in it and pressed apply. Now i will adjust the size and add some introduction and title to the topic to make it look more attractive and pleasing for the viewer. This is the final look of the project on website.

As my tutor informed me about some of the limitations flipbook has, therefore i will use some other book making app. Although, its also called Flipbookpdf but the developers are different. So, to make the flipbook the document was needed to be in pdf format. So, first i will change the word into pdf by using IlovePDF website again. After converting it, i downloaded and saved it into my PC to make a flipbook of it. To make the flipbook i went on this website and choose the downloaded document of pdf. Then i clicked on convert now to let the process begin. After it being converted, i downloaded the HTML version of it. The windows took me to a new page for download confirmation, where there was this embedded code option which i selected. After which i copied the embedded code, and saved it for uploading it on my website.

I started my story with the same process as before by making a graph of ideas by making bullet points on a paper. Then i started writing the story by taking help with the little bit of research i did. As i was planning to make a story of  no more than 7 to 8 pages this time therefor it was easy to write the whole story in one go. I ended writing the story and then added pictures and cover page just like before. The pictures i selected was non-copyright ones. After adding the pictures i re checked the whole story for grammatical or spelling errors. After finalising everything i saved the document. Next step is to make a flipbook of it.

 For my creative Writing book, i needed a front cover page with title of the book on it. For that i used adobe photoshop. For the cover page photo i used an application which provides non copyright photos and downloaded that photo. First i selected the size of the book which is word document default size A4. Then after choosing the photo which i wanted for the cover page, I added the title of the book and the writer name which is my name. Then i changed the font and size of the text according to my choice. After finalising everything and running quality checks on picture. This is what cover page looks like.

For the free project as i am doing a short-story on Fear therefore, i started doing research for the short-stories related to this theme or genre. While researching i found a short story to inspire people to overcome fear and anxiety. This short story was named "Dope on a Rope". To be honest, the name itself was so amazing that it attracted me to read the story. It was a short moral based story published on the website of Notsalmon. This website has over 1.5M of fan reach. Overall the story was amazing and gave me such a great idea of adding the element of curiosity and hope in my story which was added in this story amazingly. But one thing which was lacking, about which some of the readers also commented was the context missing of the story. If only the writer could have added minor details about who the king was and what kind of crime the criminal has committed. This makes the reader go in to the depths of the story and representation and moral of the story can also be enha

To make a flipbook of the word document i went to flipbook app, i signed in for a free trial for temporary access.   So to make a flipbook a PDF document is required. To change my word document into pdf i searched word to pdf converter on google. Then i went on a website named i love pdf . I selected my word document, converted it into pdf and downloaded that pdf. Then i went to Flipbook. uploaded my PDF version there and Flipbook did the rest. That's how my final flipbook looks like. I then downloaded the Flipbook in my Pc to upload it on website.

 After writing the whole story on word document, i started editing the text of the story and adding the elements and parts of the story i wanted to. I then changed the size and format of the particular texts i wanted to. Then i added some non copyright pictures to the text. I found those pics on unsplash and istock websites, finding the resemblance according to the text. To add the cover page for the book i have had left first page of this word document empty, so i added the cover age on the first page. Then i proof read my whole story for grammatical or spelling errors or to check if any bit is missing. Then next part was to make a flipbook which i will describe on my next blog.

For my free project, initially i was planning to make a podcast video but due to lack of time and editing skills i decided to write a short-story. So i would be doing the creative writing project now. Although, the topic would remain same because i had already done a lot of research on the topic. The topic will be related to Fear. Although i have not decided the title of the story yet. The story will include overcoming fear, dealing with it or something related to that. The reason to finalize this topic is simple, i see people going through this phase in everyday life. So watching people go through this feeling, motivated me to writing a short story how to cope with it. 

 To upload my final images on my website, i added new page in my gallery named Urban Landscape. Then from add elements i selected a gallery, a slider one for all my final photos. Its because slider gallery squeezes itself according to the size of photo user puts in it.   After adding the gallery i gave it a title and an introduction about my project, like where the photos are clicked and other major details. After that i added my final photos in that gallery which were saved on my desktop. Then i typed a title and detail about every single photo of mine one by one for the audience, so they can understand more about the photo. After finalising all of it i saved it and looked in preview. That's how preview looks like

     So at first there was a lot of part which was missing from my website for SEO. i started working on it  At the end it was 5 out of 7 because the last two parts are about the premium for which you have to pay for and I am definitely not doing it, at least for now. I also changed my About me a little, especially i added whole new text to my progression route paragraph as I've changed it this term so i typed a new paragraph for my new progression route. This is how my about me page looks like now,

 As the last part of my research, as i already had done a lot of short stories i wanted to read a proper story written by a professional writer so i decided to go for a very famous novel in my native language, translations of which are unfortunately not available on the internet, named " GHAZI " which in english means "war veteran". Its a written Bibliography of Abu Shuja Abu Waqar. It is a story of a commando mission of Abu Shuja Abu Waqar (Syed Saleem Abbas) Ex-spy of Pakistan army intelligence. The author of the book Ghazi Novel was a civilian and worked in the Tarbella company. On the Dhaka fall and situation, after that had created, he decided to join an intelligence agency voluntarily.  The whole story is quite long and in detail but the part which will help me most in my writing is the one he spent in jail and how he escaped. As it is a novel and everything is discussed from a to z which i won't be able to do so but the whole story in general was very hel

 So, after making the guidelines and rough graph on a paper, i started writing it on a word document. My story starts from a person already in jail but i feel like i am going to introduce character a little more which i felt was missing from another essay while my research and also to create that relation between the character and the audience. So maybe this will not remain the beginning of the story later on but for now i am writing what ever ideas comes to my mind as i will arrange them later on according to the way i like my story to be.

As i further continued my research I found another interesting short story named Doing Time Inside. Its written by Pretheesh Presannan. Its also a story about an innocent victim spending his time in prison. I didnt find the beginning of the story that impressive as it was the written in the same old plot of person being in the wrong place at wrong time and also there was no detail work on what kind of crime did victim committed. But the part where he starts living his life in the cell was quite amazingly explained. What they go through and what kind of difficulties a person might deal with living in the cell especially knowing that he didn't do anything to be here and he/she doesn't deserve it. The story helped me a lot with how to explain the cell time period in my story and how to make it feel real for my audience. And especially this part where he tells how does the character cope with his feelings and depression after being in the outside world after the whole experience. I

To start my story, I initially made a graph of bullet points on a rough register to help me write the story later on. I started by deciding the character's names and then the plot. I also added minor detail to boost my thought process while writing the story. For now, it's just a rough graph in which I will do a lot of changes most probably as with more time I will have more ideas and will change the direction of the story accordingly.