I have finally organized some notes, stories, thoughts into something I can work with. I've been procrastinating a project for about a decade. Thanks to this community, I am looking at it with a different eye. Instead of writing what I know -- books -- I will look at the material in the lens of a screenplay. That seemed to make all the difference in my ability to tackle it. I'm at the what will go into the acts stage and then determine if it will be a limited series or whatever.
I think I also know how I will tell the story. In using the elements I learned from the webinars, and lounge feeds, and especially the Netflix series on writing to budget. Now, I might be able to craft the story, but it doesn't mean the actual screenplay won't suck. lol. Other than a couple practice runs, I am diving in for the first time. I guess you could say a treasure hunt to my storage unit, where I found some old fiction stories I wrote (and I wrote a few), typing them into the digital archives (they were not computerized), and then finding (no accident) The Screenwriter's Bible by David Trottier, it was a sign to get off my duff and follow my Stage 32 peeps into this journey. Funny, I'm not as scared as I used to be. Go figure?
Thanks for listening, or rather reading.
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That's FANTASTIC! Congratulations! Keep at it, and keep us posted on your progress!
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Wonderful. So exciting!!
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Debbie Elicksen You'll do great! Just remember that a screenplay is not an exercise of writing, but an exercise of feeling and filtering. As a novel and non-fiction writer I found screenplays to be very limiting and taxing creatively. I had to completely reorganize my mindset, if that makes sense. In any case, I enjoy it a lot and I hope you will to!! Looking forward to seeing what you create! Talk soon!
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Bianca Y. Michaels OMG thank you for this! Just what I needed to hear.
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Debbie Elicksen the first draft is just you getting it out of your head and onto the page. I'm sure it won't suck, have some faith, but don't worry if it isn't what you thought. The real slog is edit - re-write - edit - re-write.
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Phil Bridge yes, the same process as writing a book. :)
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Debbie Elicksen gotta love the process!