creating stories, imagining characters, & designing worlds: a lifelong passion.
Creative stories, scripts, and academic writing by Sara Page. Comedy, drama, fantasy & more!
Book One: The Golden City
A dystopic planet with a red sun. A mother and her daughter must both escape the cult that binds them to an evil ancient family. Explore the depths of the ocean, poisonous gardens and a perilous volcano in this epic tale of romance and betrayal.
This work in progress has been a passion project of mine since January of 2021. Each day I move a bit closer to my goal of finishing this book. I’m very excited to begin the editing and revision process.
Expected work count: Approx. 100,000 words
Writing Samples
Dirty Witches
Script
Three witches in the Middle Ages conspire to clean their dirty cauldrons by conjuring a 20th century dishwasher, however this sends them on an unforeseen quest to create electricity through which they learn the value of hard work… or do they?
Sandwich Girls
Script
“Mom throws one half of the sandwich against the wall so hard it embeds itself there. Sizzle sounds. Smoke rises from the impact. She grumbles and rummages through her desk for something to stop the alarm. She plucks out something stringy -old pantyhose.”
Baby in a Drawer
Script
Lin-D is a party person in a post apocalyptic world where GMO food has made everybody stupid. Some people tried to resist the changes by injecting themselves with bird DNA, and they became bird people. Party people hate bird people. Lin-D has the surprise of her life when she, a party person, births a bird egg. She waits for it to hatch!
Lucifer’s Unexpected Flight
Story Sample
He looked around, shocked, as his head cracked through the floorboards on his involuntary upward flight. Martin, who was sitting on his toilet reading a newspaper, jumped to his feet with a scream as Lucifer shot up through his bathroom, offering a little wave. Martin shook his fist at him, but Lucifer was moving so fast that Martin’s barking was already inaudible…
The Ghool
Story Sample
Against the backdrop of sandy mountains and clouds of toxic gas lie old ruins of a long-dead city. The wind rushes through the ghost town, gusting down over maroon-coloured cliffs. A shrouded woman trudges through the abandoned city, crunching old tree branches into charcoal with each footstep.
Marketing Tactics for Independent Canadian Filmmakers
Research Paper
Marketing and distribution has always been difficult for Canadian independent filmmakers due to the overwhelming influence of American cinema. Subsequently, Independent filmmakers require new tactics and strategies for marketing their films…