Daniella Sinclaire's Super Sneaky Page for Secrets and Hidden Information
So, you found my top secret information button? Good job, I bet you're real proud of yourself. Don't you have better things to do than poke your nose around the website of a writer with as little of a name as me? You could have gone and touched grass, pet a cat, gone on a date, something, I don't know.
Welp, you're here now, and you can't just undo coming here, so here's your reward: Some sneak peaks into my other works!
What's the Time extras!
What's the Time is easily my favorite piece of fiction I have ever written, so of course I sought to release some extra additions for it as soon as I finished it. All of these extras serve as a way to take a deeper dive into the personalities of the characters, and learn more information about some of the less important happenings within the story. As such, they add to the story, but are not required to understand the story itself.
I would love to record a podcast style audiobook of it, with each character given a different voice, and portrayed faithfully to their characters as originally written. I don't know how long it will be before I can do this, or if I'll be able to do it at all, but I can dream.
Some behind the scenes photos from my cancelled short film, The Unraveling.
Unfortunately, the short film I wrote and filmed cannot be completed. Due to tight schedules, as well as a variety of private complications, it simply isn't possible for us to finish filming and reshoots, which is quite unfortunate because this was very much a passion project. I could throw together a hackjob of what is completed and appropriate to be shown, but I would feel wrong releasing something that is not exactly how I intend for it to be released. Perhaps I will be able to remake it or release the script in the future.
Pictured here is the lovely Maddie Fackler, who played the role of Katherine Blaque, my favorite idiot David Pollock playing the role of Joseph Waters, and the sweet and sexy Seth Kindberg who was the editor, cinematographer, and assistant director (With a workload like that, I hope you understand why the film couldn't come to fruition). Below is the incredible Sweden Dolan, who played as the dead body of Jason Giles.
Other short film stuff
I've written a lot of other short film stuff, most of them being comedic shorts, but I have written some more serious stuff as well. I don't know if I'll ever be able to follow through on making them since I have almost no budget and no materials to work with, and no sets beyond my own apartment, but I do hope that someday I can make something out of these scripts.
Taking apart The Wall, brick by brick
Pink Floyd's The Wall, released in 1979, is in my opinion the greatest album ever written. It's an absolutely amazing work of composition, but this album is more than just an album. It's an opera. The reason it is such an amazing work of art is because of the deep and thought provoking story that it tells, analyzing the human psyche and how the world we build can break people down to their basest urges, turning them into monsters. Words can't describe how amazing this album is, but that won't stop me from trying.
How do you take apart a wall? The same way you build it, one brick at a time.
This musical work of genius was made into a movie, directed by Alan Parker and written by Roger Waters, who wrote the original album. This movie though, just like the album, is hard to decipher. The progressive rock style mixed with the insane amount of symbolism makes it a hard movie to understand. This is why I am currently in the process of doing a deep dive into the film, analyzing each and every detail so that I can create a full artistic interpretation of the masterpiece that is The Wall. This is gonna be a big project.
Nighttime Talks
Yang and Joseph are an inseparable pair of best friends, slowly approaching the end of their high school years. Slowly growing closer and closer to adulthood, the two of them share a mutual feeling of existential terror, a cycle of worry for what the future holds for them. This series of short stories details the pair sharing late night talks where they vent about their fears for the coming future. It's wise to ignore what your mind tells you late at night, but these young teens have yet to learn this wisdom.
I started this short story many years ago, when I myself was in high school, and felt many of these worries. Frankly, though, the writing style was not that good. I'm honest enough to admit that I'm pretentious as hell, but even I think that the original writings of these stories were too pretentious. They were so pretentious that I wanted to vomit upon rereading them. I plan to revisit the three stories I wrote at the time and rewrite them as to make them more sensical. I also intend to add more of an overarching plot, unlike how the original stories were a collection of random conversations that had nothing to do with each other outside of the characters having them. My final change I will make to them is to add more parts, which will allow greater insight into the characters, and give me the opportunity to create the overarching plot I intended to write so many years ago, but failed miserably at.
Traveller, a lone wolf
When I was a senior in high school, I had a lot of free time, so I decided to write a novel I had an idea for. The concept, I feel, was pretty alright, but I did a really bad job executing it. At the time, my writing skills weren't as well developed, and most of my writings at that time were heavily tainted by an air of over-the-top pretentiousness.
The concept was as follows. The world is slowly recovering from a near apocalyptic chain of disasters. In this world, some places are far more dangerous than others, and the most dangerous places for people to be were made that way by the sins of their forefathers.
We follow a man, at the end of his life, who spent his days wandering the landscapes of a world struggling to heal. He, like many, rejected his obligation to help with the reconstruction of society, and chose to pursue his desire to see the world. With his final days drawing near, he decides to undertake one last expedition, this time into The Lonely Highway, a path that goes by many names, and is the subject of many urban legends. Stories say this canyon is haunted, that it is guarded by a spirit of vengeance.
In his dreams, we learn more and more about this lone wolf's life. In his journey, we learn about the harsh realities of life in a world that is apathetic to his existence, and come face to face with the spirit of The Lonely Highway. This spirit, however, is much more lifelike than the legends portray it as.