VOA常速英语:作家前往洛杉矶冒险寻梦

Hollywood draws the creative and ambitious, like this young screen writer who says that writing can be a lonely endeavor.

You feel you’re taking on this really impossible dream with this really impossible goal,and it’s a little bit comforting to be surrounded by people also doing it."

100 writers share a co-working space in a house near Hollywood, here ideas are incubated.These writers could stay at home, says the co-founder of the workspace, but there are distractions there.

It’s very easy to be like it’s time to do laundry, or I would love to learn this recipe right now, or my cat needs to play — all of those things."

Alongside other writers, they can concentrate on writing.

Olov Burman runs an animation studio in Sweden, but hopes to make movies in Hollywood.

This has always been the dream for me and the company to eventually go into feature film.So, right now I’m here to create the feature film scripts, basically, that is a lot of learning involved also."

Not all the writers have their eyes on the silver screen.

I’m writing a young adult novel, it’s a horror fantasy novel based in Los Angeles.

It is her first novel, and she wanted to be a writer because she’s an avid reader.

“I’m kind of a big nerd, and so I really like to read and I’ve always liked to read fantasy, scifi, and horror, and that’s why.”

Novice or veteran, author or screen writer, they are pursuing their dreams in Hollywood with help from other writers.

Mike O’Sullivan, VOA news, Los Angeles.