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So, I've finished my first feature screenplay, submitted to a few competition and festivals, without really knowing what I'm doing.
This was the third award in a couple of weeks, and I'm excited that people actually (well.. at least possibly) read it.
However, I've realized that telling a good story i...
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Have you entered Stage 32’s fourth monthly logline contest of the year? The deadline to submit ONE logline is tomorrow April 30th at Midnight (PT).
The top logline will be given a FREE CONTEST ENTRY to Stage 32’s 4th Annual Television Comedy Contest! And the TOP THREE LOGLINES will be entered to wi...
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You're welcome, Rob Jones. Yes, this logline contest is new. It started April 24th.
Lately my "writing music" has included, but not limited, to the following albums:
Lour Reed, American Poet
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade
Blonde Redhead, Sit Down for Dinner
Warpaint, Radiate Like This
Igor Stravinsky, Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky
At the moment the Ad Astra and 'The Keep' soundtracks.
When I'm writing, I don't listen to music. If I listen to anything it's usually a movies or series from the 80s or 90s. For instance, right now I'm writing a mystery thriller pilot so I watch episodes of MIAMI VICE that are on Youtube.
Jerry Robbins I've heard of writers doing that and also placing their desk in front of a blank wall so they have nothing to look at.
Dig the playlist! Mine depends on the project, and I typically use music during the story design stage. Once I start writing dialogue I typically switch to nature sounds on an App/ or keep it silent a...
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Tucker Teague yes, I have done that as well!
Any comedic writer will tell you there’s nothing more satisfying than a well-placed joke. Two comedy writers, Chris Lee Hill (Tragedy Girls, Five Nights at Freddy’s) and Luciano Casmiri (Christmas at Rockwell, The Indian Detective), share their secrets to writing good jokes in a script.
What are your...
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Big Congratulations to the Finalists in our Period Piece Contest!
EVETTE BETANCOURT
DAVID SCOTT MARTIN
PATRICK CONNELLY
MARCUS GOODWIN
JOSHUA REBELL
CELIA XAVIER
CHARMAINE COLINA
JENN FONTEYN
JOHN DOBLE
JAMES MORAN
Let's show our support for all the finalists and if you placed, tell us more about you...
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Pat Alexander Congrats to everyone involved
Congratulations to the ten Period Piece finalists! Way to go...and here's to added success!
Very exciting news for these writers, congratulations!
Congrats to all!
Congratulations to all quarter, semi, and finalists not an easy thing to accomplish. This is my first finalist place after many, many drafts and many many screenplays, Finally (singing that song).
I read Agatha Christie's favorite place to churn out stories was her bathtub.
My home gym is my new favorite spot to write - this way I can take out my plot frustrations on the heavy bag.
Where's your favorite spot to write?
What are you working on today?
Dan MaxXx I love that idea! Might try it so I can listen for dialogue inspiration
Our gazebo :-)
My favorite writing place is in my writing shell, just a desk. Values up when my fluffy felidae writing guard tenderly comes close. Together getting the flow is priceless.
Rachel, my bedroom's my one writing spot...it's where I've placed my Power Mac G5 computer (the one with Final Draft 6).
Dan, I admire your guts when it comes to walking into hotel lobbies to write!
Hello, "Fancy-Shmancy Hollywood Writin' People that Make the Good-Lookin' Screen Stars Talk."
So? Tell me. What's your longest duration taken to complete a feature screenplay? My latest nominated work, HORROR-FEST, took 34 days... out of one year. This being my eighth feature script, it's the first...
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Congratulations on "Horror-Fest" being a Finalist, Bill Brock! I think the longest it took me to finish a script was a few months. I probably worked on other projects while I wrote that script since t...
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Stage 32’s founder and CEO, Richard “RB” Botto, shares two videos in today’s blog.
In the first video, Adam Argot dissects and rewrites first pages that were submitted by viewers. A great video to watch if you wanna get better at writing first pages (and any page in a script).
In the second video,...
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Give me your email address and I will send you two thngs. In the same zip file.
1. Another member asked for a copy of my screenwriting manual. I explained, so 40 minuts later he had used Chat GPT4 to machine translate my Swedish text into English. After reading he wrote "I am thoroughly enjoying yo...
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In an old posting, I read that there are customers for screenplays with 6-8 characters in 1-2 locations. Fine for me since I have both created TV-movies and written plays. So how do I find such customers? No, I have forgotten who wrote that posting.
You could also post yo...
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Dear Maurice, many thanks for your advice. Any more comments?
You're welcome, Göran Johansson.
I meant to put this in my first comment, Göran Johansson: You could search for producers, directors, etc. in the Browse Members Section (www.stage32.com/people)....
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Here’s a great selection of video monologues from The Script Lab people. Plus, they give us the added bonus of a script download, so what’s not to love.
Do you write monologues in your scripts? Or are they considered old-school? I wrote one for my Big Pharma Drama where the main character, in a delus...
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I don’t think that monologues are dead. It really depends on the script and the character as to whether it’s appropriate.
My initial reaction is that it would really depend on the audience's investment in that character and what they have to say. Most movie monologues I've seen have had me invested, such as the one at th...
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Hard to use well but when they are they can be amazing. James McAvoy's in Atomic Blond was very satisfying to watch! Daniel Craig's in the opening of Layer Cake is brilliant at setting the tone of the...
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I'm a brand new screenwriter; I haven't had any major screenwriting jobs and I'm still perfecting my craft. So I was wondering, is it important for the writer to learn and practice storyboarding?
I've uploaded a couple of my original pilot scripts to my profile here, but would it be helpful for me t...
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I have created 22 hours of no-budget films, including 3 comedies which is each slightly more than 100 minutes long. I have never done any storyboarding. But I can understand the value for others.
I know AI is a TOUCHY subject, especially in the screenwriting community (and justifiably so) but just as an FYI, I know of someone who storyboarded their entire script using MidJourney, which is not...
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It's up to every writer what they wanna use, Tom Lapke, but I won't use AI publicly or privately for storyboards, loglines, scripts, etc. Screenwriters were doing these things without AI before, and w...
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Tom Lapke I think that's person-to-person. I can understand a creative wanting to complete the process themselves. And I can understand using Midjourney for specifically reference or inspiration purpo...
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At the writing stage its not essential but for planning complex sequences like action its a helpful pre-vis tool.
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is this already into a movie?
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Yes I have won screenplay awards but still nothing has come out of this and sometimes I wonder? I don't know about you Micke, but I'm continuing receiving emails from screenplay competitions all over...
Expand commentYes I have won screenplay awards but still nothing has come out of this and sometimes I wonder? I don't know about you Micke, but I'm continuing receiving emails from screenplay competitions all over the world to enter and they're offering me a discount up to 70% off! Don't waste your time or money! Maybe you need to look at your story and turn it into a GREAT story because GOOD stories don't get made.
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Congratulations. Keep up the good work.
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations. There is a pitch session every Thursday night from Stage 32. I attended a couple of times and I liked it. My time zone does not work well to attend every week.