Screenplay Thursday #2
My instructor warned us fledgling playwrights, “Writing a screenplay is harder than it looks.”
And was he saying a mouthful.
Starting was the biggest hurdle. An hour into writing I only had half a hand-written page. I realized that if I didn’t modify my writing process (back-editing several times every few paragraphs), that I may never get a first draft done. Not only that, but if the point of the course is to foster the habit of re-writing, what would I learn if I tweaked it into perfection while composing the first draft?
At the instructor’s advice, I’m using celtx – a free script writing software that you can download. It looks so pro…even if what I’ve written is a pile of crap. Crap that – hopefully – over the next three months, will dry and be carved into a beautiful screenplay statue.
Without further ado, I present to you the first four pages…
Comments? Suggests?
brilliant start.great shiny bits and depth.may have some usefull/less process related sugestions re: building a skeleton and chunking down to enable you towrite mrefaster and get bintolegitimate rewriting faster…ie loose screen synopsis,lose scene by scene, then flesh out skeleton….storyboarding may help to…
September 26th, 2008 at 4:00 am