J.B. Storey's Lounge Discussions

Looks exciting!

thank you!

congratulations!

Hey, J.B. Storey. I'm a Stage 32 Lounge Moderator. I wanted to let you know I moved your post from the Screenwriting Lounge to the Your Stage Lounge because it's promotion. Promotion can go in the Your Stage Lounge (www.stage32.com/lounge/promotion) and on Your Wall.

You can, however, post your promotion in one of the other Lounges if your post starts a conversation that's helpful and educational to the community. Example: If you post about the teaser trailer in the Screenwriting Lounge, within that post you could start a discussion about how teaser trailers can be used to help pitch a script -- this doesn't have to be long, just something that starts a conversation that's helpful and educational.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thrilling trailer! Looking forward to seeing CRY HAVOC!

Sound of Scripts did an amazing job... such a cool concept. Thank you so much!

Hey J.B., this is Leonardo from the Stage 32 team. I just wanted to let you know I moved your post from Screenwriting to Anything Goes, as it fits much better there. Let me know if you have any questions, and all the best to you!

Congratulations again, Sarah Kennedy! I'm about to check this out!

Leonardo Ramirez Whatever you think works best. In the past these were posted in the Screenwriter lounge, as it was applicable to them. Apologies for doing so. You may want to move all of them over to this lounge instead if that makes more sense. Likewise, we will avoid notifying anyone in the screenwriting lounge about the monthly competition and post it here instead. Mea culpa. We didn't know. First time hearing we were running afoul of the lounge guidelines. Very sorry for causing any inconvenience.

Sarah Kennedy Just took a listen and it sounds beautiful. Love this! Congratulations!

You're welcome, J.B. Storey. Do you know if Sarah is on Stage 32?

i will check

Yes, I am! I write as Sarah Kennedy (maiden name) but might have goofed on this one submitting as Sarah Onderdonk (married name). I've been on here a few months checking things out but have yet to do the introduction thing. So impressed with the talent on Stage 32!

Hey, Sarah Kennedy thanks for confirming. That's excellent news. We haven't been very consistent with sharing our work/contests, etc with S32. So, I'm thrilled to bits that was how you came across the competition.

Who knows? Perhaps the POWERS THAT BE, here on S32 can arrange for us to do a more substantial contest/partnership in the future? (hint, hint!!).

Feel free to please share on Social Media, Sarah. And let us know if you are on Twitter/Instagram and we will tag you on all applicable posts.

Great to meet you, Sarah Kennedy. Again, congratulations! I'm looking forward to hearing your scene!

How's it going, J.B. Storey? I started to watch the "Seraphim's Miracle" table read on YouTube. I plan to go back and watch more of it.

Maurice Vaughan Hey, buddy! Yeah, finally got the dang read finished in post-production. The chap who edited did a great job. Lots of learning came out of the process for me. One in particular being: Make sure the actors have actually read their roles before hand, have a chat with them, and give them some notes. As doing it in such a rushed fashion was HARD! And a few bits fell short. Hey ho! We live and learn, yes? And how are things with you, mate?

Hey, J.B. Storey. Sorry for the late reply. I'm doing great. Working on some projects. How are you?

Hey, J.B. Storey. How are you doing? Suspenseful teaser! I'm excited to see "Cry Havoc" next year!

Congratulations! Hope post is going well!

Maurice Vaughan Good, dude. How are things with you? What’s the latest project you’re working on?

I'm doing great, J.B. Storey. Thanks. I'm working on a rewriting job, working on a writing job, and pitching projects (which is going great too!).

I just looked it up. It seems like a pretty good recording service. Depending on what you want to do with it would determine if it's cost-effective for you, although I'm not familiar with other live recording services.

Hi J.B. ...hmmm...just learned something new! Have never heard of Riverside.fm

Cool idea, but I'd suggest to open a window for audio dramas as well....kinda text specifically written for audio (music cues, sound effects, etc)...unless ure airing "Glengarry Glen Ross" I'd say screenplay is more of an visual media text...

Cool thing is, you can stick the YouTube video version on your listing on Script Revolution to give people a little listen. Check it out in action here.

Thanks for the idea, CJ.

B A Mason Thanks for your thoughts. Generally speaking, this service is specifically designed for scripts, manuscripts that are ready 'go to market'. Basically, it would be a very expensive table read, if you were using it to workshop a story!!!

Kiril - yes, we do get inquiries of the audio book variety. As for your point about screenplays being a visual text. That's very true. However, if one starts a new business, they should probably do a little bit of market research to understand if there is 1) A need 2) A primary, secondary and tertiary audience 3) You have a structure for scale. RE, Number 2 - on this note, between myself and my business partner (who works very closely every day with agents, managers, directors and actors), the general consensus is that they see a lot of benefit to using a service such as this. They get sent a lot of scripts to read. Being able to have an option to listen, is something they welcome... enthusiastically. If their responses had been passive or indifferent, we wouldn't be doing this at all. As there would be no benefit to anyone in the ecosystem. The business would be DOA from day 1.

Hi, Mae. It just so happens that me and my business partner, TJ Ramini recently launched an audio production service called SOUND OF SCRIPTS (www.soundofscripts.com), and we are building out our roster of VO talent. Feel free to check out the site to understand what we are doing. If this work is of interest to you, please forward on a couple of demos for us to review. You can do that on the ABOUT page which include a CONTACT US form. Or you can email us directly at: soundofscripts@yahoo.com. Thanks and good luck!

Welcome!

Thank you, Sir! Shall do! :D - Mae

Welcome Mae Aswell

I've had success with both written and virtual pitches in terms of getting the script requested, E.M. Watson.

I prefer written pitches. However, if you do one, provide a succinct summary with a beginning, middle and end, briefly state your reason for writing the story (what it means to you) and tell the reader a little bit about you as an artist. And, squeeze it all into a maximum of two pages. Good luck.

Excellent question. I'd love to know what percentage of 'requests' come from each approach. Would also be curious how many successes there have been made via this service. But, that may be asking for a bit too much data sharing!! Which I completely understand would be a hard 'no'!! But hey, it's a really cool resource to help writers understand and most of all, improve their pitching abilities. Lordy knows I am always looking for ways to improve and learn when it comes to all aspects of the end-to-end writing continuum!!

Hey, everyone. My sincere apologies for the late reply. Working... I appreciate everyone's input on this and I value the time you took in providing your opinions. Think I'll give a written pitch a shot. That's where my comfort level is for now. Who knows? That may change! But thanks everyone. This community is so helpful.

You're welcome, E. M. Watson. Hope the pitch goes well!

MB Stevens Thanks for the kind comments!

Louis DeVaughn Nelson That sounds very cool!

I love this!

Deborah Adewuyi Thank you!

Probably should have mentioned, this is out placeholder site: www.soundofscripts.com. Just WIP for now. Will be fully ‘functional’ by August.

Big oaks from ‘lil acorns grow, right?

I have the opposite problem. I retired and have way more time than I know what to do with. I enjoyed writing and I enjoy helping and encouraging young/beginning writers. I've realized that I can't deal with the arrogantly ignorant, cry-baby crowd and doing so sucks the enjoyment out of my own creativity - something has to give. So I pledge not to help others any more and try to recover the joy I used to feel in my onw writing - I guess it's called 'burn out'.

Hi Andrianna! Sorry to hear the "infamous writer's block" has got a hold of you. My advice is first to recognize and identify why are you having these scattered thoughts? Sometimes it's environmental induced depression, job tension, financial worries, family disagreements, relationship problems, etc. What I do is shut out the negative noise of social media, politics, and news! I revisit my childhood, the laughs, the warmth of innocent friendships. Sometimes I'll watch a movie from the golden era of Hollywood (I watch the original Blob and War of the Worlds last night, hehe) Popcorn, and a glass of wine in hand. OR I'll reread for the umpteen times "Jurrasic Park" by Michael Crichton or "Phantoms" by Dean Koontz! My point is to find that one thing that brought you happiness as a child or as an adult! revisit it. Immersed yourself in the fantasy of your thoughts, and this will unlock your mind from any negative barriers!

Hi Adriana. Like Jeremy wrote, he are all so different. But what works for me is to allow time, at least half an hour/day, to sit down alone and write. No matters what, just write something. The inspiration will come to you, sooner or later.

How do you find time for anything...relaxing, traveling, watching TV...? You like such stuff, you find time...If you like writing you'll always have a time for it...if you need a little push towards having it as an obligation, just find some writing job...offers are all around...when doing it to meet your deadlines and paychecks finding time will be even lesser issue...

Thank you for all the comments and ideas. I think I was able to take away something from each comments and I appreciate the time you all took to comment and share your thoughts and ideas. K will say I was inspired enough to wake up at 5 this morning and get an hour of writing in before work- so again thank you :)