Alyssa McClure is an author, blogger, and loves to get into the room whenever writing is happening.
She’s been crafting stories since she could hold a pen, published her first book when she was just ten, and has since written as a day job, night job, and dream job.
In 2024, she rose Golden Years Productions out of nothing, in order to attempt to adapt her most recent novel series Kanda Land into a movie trilogy, and completely uprooted her life in order to give it her best shot.
Where she landed was back in university to finish her bachelor’s degree after many rejections by producers and directors alike.
Deciding that she couldn’t run forward by running backwards anymore, she’s trying to gather her own team of creatives instead of waiting for the permission of big names or a degree. Afterall, she believes that experience is a far better teacher than textbooks, and passion says more than a piece of paper.
“I taught myself more in the four months before University by doing my own research than I felt like I learned in university for the entire year I went back to school for. It truly felt like just going backwards and getting stuck in a tar pit. Sure, they taught us cameras, but it wasn’t even movie cameras. It was just a market Sony camera. I’ve had a Nikon. My dad is a photographer. None of that took more than a day to learn, and yet we spent a semester on it. It was time for life to take the reins, instead of a course schedule for teenagers.”
She said that she mainly went back to college, not because she didn’t believe in her capability – she always wanted to attain a successful life for herself without a degree just to prove her grit – but because she ended up feeling like she missed out on some sort of rite of passage. That nostalgia is what brought her back to Uni, only to realize she was probably far better off getting her hands dirty doing the real thing than to bury herself farther in debt just to keep reading textbooks and working on unskilled student projects.
“You can’t learn anything if all the people around you know the same or less than you. Working on a student set felt like we were all chasing our tail and hoping to win a marathon. I wanted real experience, not a bone to be thrown to me. Getting the A hardly mattered when we still didn’t even make a real movie. It felt fun, but highly unrealistic and very constrained by ‘still learning the rules.’ I’ve already learned creative rules. I’m ready to break them. Art is in freedom, not formulas.”
That’s why she wants to garner creative teams that are active in their art, to share her ideas and the meaningful work they will prove to be, and to genuinely learn something for once. By experience. Hands on. In the actual field.
“I’m tired of doing nothing. I want to DO something. Let’s do it together. I know we can.”
In collaboration, there is power. Let’s harness that together to do great things that none of us could do on our own.
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