Crafting a Screenplay About Vampires
From singing and acting to screenwriting, Charles Davis currently incorporates his own life experiences while writing a trilogy about vampires. Charles Davis is 35 years old and is from Reno. He’s had a range of different jobs throughout the years including, Walmart, Round Table Pizza, Hollywood Video, Blockbuster Video, Burger King and Goodwill. He used to study singing and acting.
“I used to be in singing for a semester and then I had two throat surgeries and while on voice rest, my grades were declining from an A to a C. I had to do something to bring it up obviously. So I started writing and sure enough, it took up and it went from sentences into a story.
His current trilogy includes a musical called, ‘Drake a Vampire’s Journey.’ Davis doesn’t want to publish his work online due to fears of his ideas being stolen. His favorite movie is, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’ directed by Gore Verbinski in 2003. He enjoys doing voice impressions of characters.
The questionnaire we are passing out at the downtown library as part of Share Your Story Mondays from 10 to noon. If you’d like to share your story, don’t hesitate. You can also bring favorite pictures and mementoes of yourself and Reno.
Surviving Depression and Sexual Assault in Reno
Davis says that he’s a loving and caring person. He enjoys helping people and volunteering. He said that people in Reno can be standoffish and he wishes people made more efforts to get to know each other. Davis says that he puts his life experiences into his writing. He said that he’s lost people in his life due to depression and is also a survivor of sexual assault.
“In 35 years, people just think it's just a normal life, but I've had a lot of past bad experiences with exes, life and family. I was born four months premature,” Davis said. “Biological mom left me, adoptive family wasn't so great. They just wanted me as a paycheck versus the love and family I should've gotten. But you can't always get what you want, so you just gotta roll the dice and go with it.”
Davis said that he enjoys sharing his story with others. His advice to writers is, “Be true yourself and just go with what you know.”