I got into screenwriting in the summer of 2020. After lockdown and working at my computer for hours on end, I decided to... tah dah do more work on that same computer. Albeit this was fun stuff.
Now 4 years plus a few months later, I have 5 scripts:
(1) a slow-burn horror which was my 1st script.... it's now at draft 11
(2) a post-apocalyptic sci-fi actioner w/ aims at a trilogy... at draft 10
(3) an assassin actioner w/ aims at a trilogy... at draft 13
(4) a drama taking place during one night... at draft 3
(5) a romantic (accidental) adventure... at draft 2
And I am writing a 6th, another drama with 2000s era nostalgia. As well as tweaking outlines for the mentioned trilogies and some other random projects in my idea pool. A real broad net.
My first question to the S32 Community: is this broad net…
(a) good, it's multi-tasking.
(b) bad, it's way too scatterbrained.
(c) other… please explain.
Looking forward to networking with all the S32 people!
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First off, great to have you here, Michael Dzurak. To answer your question, it's always great to have a wide variety of scripts. Write what you want to write. This industry likes to put writers in a box, but that doesn't mean you have to do it to yourself.
If I could offer one bit of advice, finish your scripts. I see 10+ drafts on many of these. At some point, knowing a script will never be "finished" once a producer, financier, manager, etc, reads it and wants to get involved, YOU need to be finished with it and get it out into the ether.
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Welcome to the community, Michael Dzurak. I agree with RB. I mainly write Horror and Action, but I have a portfolio of scripts/etc. in different genres.
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RB: "YOU need to be finished with it and get it out into the ether."
CROSSFADE TO:
Me smiling.
I like that advice, Richard "RB" Botto. I think my assassin script is ready… or at the very least I think it is. I submitted it to S32's "4th Annual Action/Thriller Screenwriting Contest." This is also partly why I started a 6th one as by now I got the sense that any script is just endlessly reworkable. So potential "rewrite ideas" for my action script made it into my adventure script and even drama script since they we broader pacing things that are near script universal.
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Nice, Maurice Vaughan. Keep that keyboard busy!
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Michael Dzurak , little chance of that not being the case. Maurice Vaughan is akin to a writing sweatshop both run and staffed by himself...
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I like to think of myself as the screenwriting Avengers, Mike Childress, and I'm every member on the team. Haha
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Maurice Vaughan Haaaaaaa. I just pictured you and your clones interacting, hovering over Maurice Prime at the keyboard.
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Good on you for being proactive, Michael Dzurak. Wishing you all the best with it!
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Maurice Vaughan Or you're Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen at a few computers at once.
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It's been so long since I've seen Watchmen, Michael Dzurak. I don't remember what Dr. Manhattan does.
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Maurice Vaughan Blasphemy! One of my favorite GNs/movies. Now there's an animated version too.
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Maurice Vaughan Dr. Manhattan can, among others, be in several places at once, therefore he can write multiple screenplays at once if there's no supervillain trying to take over the world.
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Oh yeah, Michael Dzurak. I'm screenwriting Dr. Manhattan! Dr. Screenwriting!