Ellison Wright Baldwin: Actor, screenwriter and graphic designer in San Francisco, California.

Welcome dude.

Hi Christopher, welcome to the site. It's absolutely great here and the trick is to connect, connect, connect :)

Welcome!

Thank you, Ellison!

boofing in the Devil's Triangle while ralphing many, many times during a FFFFFFFourth of July Beach Week.

When i get to the end - torture - like watching the news channels this week

taking a deep breath, like a whale, then submersing for hours, weeks, months, a whole universe unto yourself, then finally, you rise, break the surface, spout a stream of story for the world to see, and hope someone catches a glimpse of it, appreciates the beauty...

Welcome, dude.

Welcome to the group.

Welcome Thomas!

Chris, I’m the same. I use an excel spreadsheet to write a detailed outline. It’s easier to edit than a full 100 pages script.

Kevin you seem old school" ... keep a pad and pen by you at all times...

They said that there are different ways for every story. Try a lot of things, and choose that will work best on your story. Good luck!

For Christmas this year: A really nice smokey single malt Scotch. 2017 was pretty hectic with a lot of irons in the fire. I moved, I built a new studio, I wrote a handful of (award winning) shorts, set up a new production entity and gave a couple of short scripts to a few local millennial generation filmmakers - not a one of them was able to perform. (I learned a lot working with millennials - don't do that again.) I've shut down my cable show for lack of decent films (young filmmakers today only want to make stealth films).

Looking forward to Christmas, 2018 - more of a New Year's resolution. I'll no longer beg young writers/filmmakers to let me help - they're on their own now. I'm going to write only two scripts in 2018 - both complex tales, honed, polished and worthy. It's OSCAR bait time.

I'm old & retired so I have nothing better to do. I have one of those Fitbit watches (in a drawer somewhere). At my age, 16 hours a day is a bit much (I need my afternoon nap) but I can manage 10 - 12 hours - seven days a week.

I want good deals for the scripts I've written. I wish everybody tons of happiness and memorable moments for 2018.

For Christmas this year, in terms as a TV writer, a couple of six packs of Smiroff's, & to make up for this super rough year, with building an animation/music studio, from the comforts of my own room. Even it means using the money to pay for more equipment, to make it happen.

If you have time I would do all three. Don't procrastinate but get to the desk and start. You are in a terrific position being able to draw yourself, so you can put your exact own personal stamp on your work. Im currently working on a Transmedia project but am having to source and pay a comic illustrator. After the novel and screenplay the comic will bring your story alive with powerful vision at no extra cost but investing time. We are in exciting times for Transmedia. Then do the pitching rounds.

Personally, when I was in the market for a script, I found the best screenwriters focused on screenwriting. Those who also wrote books of the same story were generally unreadable.

A screenplay is Intellectual property, I've registered plenty of them, so I'm guessing that the scriptmag article is rubbish. I repeat, a screenplay is IP.

Look at almost any of the films you have actually seen. How many are written by the same person who wrote the book? The only good one I can think of is "The Princess Bride." And even then, Goldman usually writes either a script or book, not both. (A few also wrote a play, but I think they were commissioned to adapt it into a script after the play was successful.)

I have an old comedy/sci-fi pilot that I have never felt was quite right to pitch any where. I decided to turn it into a graphic novel, which is something i am now doing, and having had to change aspects and worry less about budget constraints for a Tv show I can do what I like and it's improved out of sight. I'm finally feeling much happier about this project and the characters are gelling better. I will keep up the screenwriting, but I think my preference is now in comics.