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unraveling.
Like the title?
That’s what I’m naming the screenplay.
Finally, finally, I have an outline that I can work with. I started by writing sixty pages furiously, and then realized that my plot was unraveling — and not in a good way — with each ensuing word.
Back to the drawing board, I’ve been freaking with index cards. [...]
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oh, no!
So now that I feel like I’m back to writing — finally, after over a year’s hiatus — I started searching for screenwriting blogs.
As you might imagine with the screenwriting industry being what it is (which is thousands of people who write and only a handful who get to see their writing come to life [...]
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planning.
I used to be the managing editor of a magazine. A few years later, I ran special events for a hospital system. Both jobs, believe it or not, had similarities. In writing a fiction story, I’m again finding that similarity: start with the end.
At the magazine, we’d block out what we knew we had in [...]
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this is seriously a journal entry that i’m sure no one outside of myself would even care to read.
Still plowing away at my screenplay. I’ve been outlining like mad, and it’s getting there. I dreamed about one of my characters last night — he was dead in a coffin, and decided that for his last hurrah, he would shake himself from that final slumber and announce, in public to everyone alive who knew [...]
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deadlines.
I wanted to have my screenplay outlined by yesterday. Oh, well. Didn’t happen. Not gonna happen today, either.
But! I did come up with a title and logline.
The Old College Try: An ethics professor, who catches her dying husband with his young nurse, finds consolation from a student.
I just hope I don’t think this thing to [...]
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got it!
My screenplay is entirely outlined — some areas are fleshed out more than others, but it’s all there. All there, plus an awesome ending.
I was struggling with not making the ending cliche. “Hollywood endings” are so obvious, and while this screenplay has one of those feel-good endings as well, it’s an unexpected route to get [...]
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hyperthyroid?
Went to see the doc about my damn twitching today. His first guess is that it’s a tight muscle that will work itself out over time. Stretch. Keep taking Xanax!! Can you believe that? Keep taking Xanax for a tight muscle? He said Xanax is a super muscle relaxer, so if it helps keep me [...]
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happy…whatever.
On the heels of nearly completely forgetting that yesterday was New Year’s Eve, I decided that New Year’s is a crock. A new day in a string of days that make up a lifetime. We don’t get all giddy about it turning a new month every month or even a new week or new day [...]
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Major screenwriting breakthrough for me. I’m quite the believer in what they teach you in writing classes: form follows function. Form follows function.
There is a general formula that most every commercial screenplay follows. Tons of books tell you exactly what page to put which activity. I’ve always struggled with the formula and I now realize [...]
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current work in progress.
My screenplay idea continues to hatch. I like it. A lot. It’s hard to bottle cap the idea because I’d love to bounce it off people I trust to see what they think…
Well, only kind of…
Actually, I’d only want to bounce them off people so that they could say they totally love it too…
And let’s [...]
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