Time flies…realized I needed to jot down a post to keep me on track in this journey. Vegas didn’t turn out how I thought…I wound up doing the most wonderful research and coming up with ideas that I hadn’t anticipated that will add a little extra punch to script. Just pages of writing and climbing and walking all over town taking it all in. Everyone was great and offered all types of assistance and encouragement.
I was advised to go to Vegas..and the advisement was dead on. My script will be richer for the experience.
Right now, just a lot of studying..reading. I know the motto is just write…and it’s true…I write something pretty much everyday..but I’m wierd..I don’t have to write everything down. If the dialogue is good enough..it sticks…and I can bounce dialogue back and forth off of the characters in my head. If the flow works..it sticks. If it was really sucky..I really can’t remember it. So my methodology of going about drafts may differ from many, but it works for me.
Once it’s flowing in my head…it will flow to outline form, making it easier to construct scenes and shift around if needed.
I also decided that I’m gonna go for it and enter the Nicholl Fellowship competition at the top of 2011. Worse that can happen is that I don’t make the QFinals..and I will try again. But if I didn’t..I would think maybe I need to focus on another type of writing because I plan on going in hard the first time out.
A lot of reading this upcoming holiday weekend including some spec scripts to reference structure.
That’s all for now…
Write on..
