hello
hope you're all doing great.
so I had something on my mind and I wanted to share it here, and I would love to listen to your opinion as well. as you can see I'm a new member her and I joined to know more about everything and I'm so excited.
so this is it the thing I was writing
(For me this is life easy though hard, beautiful but sometimes nasty, with every up you find an opposite down. And it goes on and on until we die. We spend all our lives trying to reach something, and whenever we are there we find a bigger one waiting, we spend our lives running from ourselves hoping to reach something better, we spend almost all we got thinking that if we were somewhere else we would’ve been happier or more successful that we almost forget our identity we forget who we are and what we really want. We dream and our dreams take the challenge whether to drag us down or to motivate us to be better. But what is all this about? And why are we doing all this? Is it because we really want to reach the dream? Or is it because we are afraid to admit that we are empty and we need answers for everything?)
would love to hear from all of you.....
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Wow, very thought-provoking, Lillian Saraiealdeen! There are so many themes for screenplays in your post.
"But what is all this about? And why are we doing all this? Is it because we really want to reach the dream? Or is it because we are afraid to admit that we are empty and we need answers for everything?" It could be either reasons for people. Or both reasons. Among other reasons, I write to reach the dream of selling a big project, it's exciting to tell stories in the screenplay format, and writing helps to pay bills/expenses.
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Sounds like you've been reading some of my more recent scripts.
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Doug Nelson I would love to read them if you could send me a link or anything and thank you for your comment
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Maurice Vaughan I wish you all the best in selling the biggest project of your life and thank you for the beautiful answer you provided and I would love to learn how to write a good well organized screenplay format
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You're welcome, Lillian Saraiealdeen. Hope you sell your biggest project (and all of them).
You can learn how to write screenplay format by reading screenplays. You can read unproduced screenplays on Stage 32 (https://www.stage32.com/loglines) and Script Revolution (https://www.scriptrevolution.com/). You can read produced screenplays here: https://screencraft.org/blog/download-70-screenplays-legally-free/
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Maurice Vaughan thank you loads will make sure to check them
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You're welcome, Lillian.
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Lillian Saraiealdeen I love the existentialist angst of your post. Thank you for your openness and honesty. Yes, life is like a screenplay with its ups and downs, twist and turns. Dreams can be nightmares though and suck us down to a place that can’t sustain life.
Check out films like The Truman Show, Persona or The Seventh Seal (you can’t beat Bergman for a little existentialist angst!), Birdman, or Fellini’s ‘8 1/2’. Learn from others and then write your own masterpiece!
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You need to address such questions through art. Cinema, if you can.
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Geoff Hall sorry for the late reply.... Thank you for the beautiful suggestions you provided will make sure to watch them and to start somewhere with my writings
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Amman M. Said yeah I would love to do that but I'm just giving it some time so maybe this way it would come naturally
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Well, Lillian Saraiealdeen Writing for children is always easy. So is writing ultra-short stories. Like maybe not more than 3 pages about anything.
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Lillian Saraiealdeen thank you Lillian. If you need help, just give me a shout.
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I'm in this to write true stories that others are afraid to tell. The truth will soon become a lost art it will be replaced with feelings. and artificial emotions.
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Christopher Hood Hi Christopher, so what is this truth, what is your truth that others need to hear? Does it not have feelings and emotion? Is Lillian not reaching towards the truth?
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hi Christopher Hood would love to hear more about what's on your mind about the truth? and I think what I wrote was a good question for whoever is really searching and welling to know the truth
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As a new screenwriter my first efforts are focused on untold truths. Life brings us many truths and none actually belong to us. The truth in life has no emotions or feelings, humans bring those emotions to the truth. My recently completed screenplay Killing Detroit is an example of feared untold truth. When people fear or want to forget things they bury them or cover them up with lies. When truths are dug up the fear comes back and people get nervous.
Killing Detroit uncovers drug dealing by Detroit police officers with the assistance of our federal government. An entire city was flooded with deadly drugs. The generational impact that still has it effects to this day is the truth we fear. Killing Detroit's truth has powerful attribution with court records and media accounts and a copulation of researched spanning over thirty years. The most important element is my eyewitness account - of this American tragedy. Today this kind of truth is so powerful that I suspect today's feelings and emotions will make sure this story never reaches the silver screen or the flat screen.
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Christopher Hood thanks Christopher for sharing this story. It sounds compelling. Have you tried any of the Script Services on this site, or talked to anyone on the team, to help you move towards getting this made?
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Geoff - I will look into that approach - millions of thanks for your advice.
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Christopher Hood keep us all posted on how you get on, please. Here’s wishing you every success.