[RL] Updates

[doomlimit]

So I mentioned this a while ago, so I suppose I should UPDATE THE UNIVERSE:

My grandmother fell some weeks ago and cracked her tail bone. This I have already reported.

However, the cracked tail bone turned out to be a crushed vertebrae D: D:!! Mom went out to visit her for the surgery but wasn't able to afford a ticket for me too

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[togabitoion]

I've been fumbling with a script myself, so I can offer a few things I'd heard... I don't have the name of the author I was told to look up, but I can get that to you when I find my notebook.

The important thing I was told though (by someone who does this sort of work) was to first start out by picking up a few scripts and read along on them while watching the finished product.

I have several scripts I picked up at Half-Price books, and some really big movies have screenplays published as well. I'm sure you can find them at Borders or Barnes and Noble... or if you're more for Amazon, there are going to be tons there, of course.

I've got a couple of people I watch on Twitter, also. At least one of them is a valuable resource, because he posts one line hints fairly frequently. If you want names, I can probably dig them up later, as well.

Edit:
Also- this same resource also told me... since you already know what you're doing, make sure you find resources for film scripts. Because film and TV scripts are two wildly different things, and have their own styles.

[doomlimit]

Now I think back I don't think she actually specified if it was film or TV. She said she would get my email from Mom (I don't entirely know why she didn't want to know it from me, maybe she didn't have any paper handy?) and send me the deeper info later.

[togabitoion]

Here- let me go ahead and give you two of the references:

Joe Mallozzi's blog - he's the producer behind Stargate Atlantis, and the one behind many of its scripts. He'll sometimes talk about his writing in it, but he's also open to questions, so he answers comments in the mailbag. He's the one who gave me the author to read up on, and to pick up a few scripts already.

Also, two of the twitters, I follow:

http://twitter.com/ScreenplayTips
http://twitter.com/scriptdreric