Screenwriting : Jake Johnson, who found a rusty gun & a bone, wrote a screenplay based on it. Have you based a script on an odd personal experience? by LindaAnn Loschiavo

For sure...it sounds like fun!!!

Many many times.

Nice share, Linda. By the way...your kitty ZHENG T'AI....looking at that cat's eyes....those are the cutest/deepest/most expressive type of cat eyes. I know cat eyes like that. That cat would own me and manipulate the shit out of me! God, I hate cats! Heh-heh.

Heading back to grade school, I've had a bad habit of attracting unavailable women. I turned that into my first screenplay The Other Guy.

Great share, Linda.

Yeah, but usually in a parallel sense. Not so much in screen but television. Sometimes my experiences are too odd, even for screen or television. LOL!

I just had to find the cat photos after Bills comment. All three could "humble" a cat lover.

Yes, though it wasn't as lurid/exciting as what Mr. Johnson experienced! I once had an conversation with someone who thought I had attended a school other from my own. It proved to be the kernel of an idea for a script I co-wrote, with a buddy of mine. (-:

My experiences in the extreme heavy metal music community helped inspire a screenplay that changed my screenwriting luck, and informed a few of my other scripts as well. Stranger than fiction, as they say - and in heavy metal that couldn't be more true.

Not so much odd, but yes personal experiences and I wrote a supernatural based on a story / dream / premonition, my grandma told me when I was nine. I'm always listening, because even friends can provide you with so much story, that we as writers have stretch and twist to make it cinematic.

I was a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network. That's how I started writing grounded sci fi. I also write horror - most from personal experiences living in an old country and later as a paranormal investigator.