Since today is Introduce Yourself Day, I'm reintroducing myself. I'm PK, a longtime fiction-writer turned screenwriter. I joined Stage32 just over a year ago while I was writing my first feature script. Thanks to all the help and advice here, that script has done well in the festival circuit and is in consideration for a option, I've completed a second feature script, and am halfway through a third!
The way I make the most of this community, is I've found that interacting, engaging, and paying attention to questions others ask that that I myself am wondering helps a lot, plus keeping an ear to the ground in terms of Script Services, contests, and while I'm not a Writer's Room member (yet), I know there's a lot of value there as well.
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Hi Patrick Koepke Thank you for introducing yourself to the community. Have you published any novels? What are you currently working on?
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Congratulations on your first script doing well in the festival circuit and being in consideration for an option, Patrick Koepke! That's really impressive for a first script! Congratulations on finishing your second script and getting halfway through the third!
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Suzanne Bronson thank you! I started my writing career in gaming sourcebooks for Crimson Skies (FASA Corp), then wrote a couple of novels you can find under my name on Amazon. I've also got various work published around the web (like Goodreads/Smashwords, etc.) and a graphic novel back in 2009 that made it to WonderCon and SDCC. Not sure why I never seriously considered screenwriting before, since the medium is much more efficient and fun to write! How about you, any projects you're working on?
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Thank you Maurice! I was surprised that it got any traction at all since it's such a niche story (Wuxia/Martial Arts/Action in the vein of Crouching Tiger and Big Trouble in Little China). The second screenplay is survival horror and my current one is paranormal thriller.
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You're welcome, Patrick Koepke. I liked watching Big Trouble in Little China growing up! It was a fun Fantasy Action Comedy movie! I don't think I've seen anything like it since.
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I'm with you Patrick Koepke - I started writing novels and one graphic novel. Since my shift to screenplays, I've never looked back. At some point I may write another novel but right now I'm having too much fun writing screenplays.
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Leonardo Ramirez 2 very cool! I bet you also like the nuance that lies between each medium (short stories, novellas, graphic novels, screenplays) and how to execute the narrative.
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Maurice - Big Trouble in Little China is one of my all time favorites. My effort (The Sword of the Celestial Dragon) plays it more serious than that, but it is still a huge influence. Most people don't realize how much worldbuilding and Chinese history there is hiding in BTLC, even if they get the dates wrong.
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You're right Patrick Koepke - although at the time, I didn't even realize that it's what pulled me in.
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Did you have to do a lot of research for your script, Patrick Koepke? I wrote a script a while back that takes place in China, and I did a lot of research to make sure things were accurate.
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Yes a lot. It helps that I am a student of Jianfa, so a lot of the martial arts in the story are either authentic or dramatized in an authentic way (if that makes sense.) I tried to be genuine though, even down to things like songbirds (light-vented bulbuls) in the scenes.
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Welcome back, Patrick Koepke and huge congratulations on everything you’ve accomplished this past year! It’s incredible to hear how far you’ve come with your scripts and how Stage 32 has played a part in your journey. That’s exactly the kind of progress and spirit we love to see in this community.
I really appreciate your insight about engaging and learning from others, it’s such a valuable reminder that connection is one of the most powerful tools we have as writers.
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Ashley Renee Smith Thank you! My production cadence is 1-3 scenes per evening (I have a day job). I spend my idle time thinking about the next scenes so when I sit down to write after work I'm ready to rock. On weekends/days off I try to 5 scenes per day.
I do truly owe a lot to this community's patience and guidance as I've jumped into this wacky world of screenwriting. I have a long way to go, but I'm really enjoying the voyage.