Can't sleep--

[masquedbunny]

My muse will eat me.

Well, it's apropos.

Yes, I'm back again.

Word count is not at all where it should be. And the words that are there are giving me Mort Rainey moments of self-loathing. Just bad.

UGH. Edit and censor LATER, brain!

I'll be at this scene 'til midnight, I suppose ...

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[kleogade]

and it's times like this that i am grateful for not having a talent!

[masquedbunny]

Pshaw! You are talented!

[kleogade]

yah! @ FAIL!!! but at least i'm serviceable, and apparently good enough company to be let hang round the talented, which is quite grand.

at any rate, inspired by a number of things, one of which being you and your nanowrimo, i am trying to undertake the task of writing a screenplay which i've had in the works of my mind for a few years now. i expect that i'll mostly be working on it diligently and with purpose during the spring, but i'm getting started now as i have absolutley no experience with this form of writing. i hope to have a workable first draft completed by the beginning of summer '10, (and perhaps, if i should be so bold, i might endeavor to bring the whole project about to fruition by the end of next year!) (and we can celebrate that too over drinks in ireland! YEY!!!!)

anyhoo, what knowledge have you on screenplay writing? help would be apreciated!! and/or grant writing, i know panda's good at it but more knowledge wouldn't hurt!

[masquedbunny]

Ooh, I'm excited about your screenplay (which, btw, you wouldn't be writing were you not talented and creative, these things that you say you aren't)!

As to screenplay knowledge--what do you want to know? If you're starting from scratch, I think the best way to learn is to read and do. Handbooks are fine (and recommended), but reading a working screenplay will help you understand the necessary parts of a script and where they fit.

When you know how everything fits together, the next useful tool will be a good software programme. There are expensive ones available, of course, but I've seen freeware online that will also do the job.

At that point, my advice is just dive in and write. It might not work exactly the way you want to begin with (you may even look back one day and wonder what the hell you were thinking at the start--how I now often view the stories I composed in middle school), but practice will make perfect.

[kleogade]

yeah, getting some diff. ones to peruse... thinking that and getting a storyboard started will help lots. i know storyboards usually come after, but i'm a visual so... dundundun...
will prolly ask q's as they come up!