Gads, t's weird...when he's laughing and being kinda bashfully self-deprecating, he reminds of so much of my dad. Not in any other way, just those little chuckle-moments. Anyway, when it comes to writing a script, my problem is _endurance;_ I can't stick with it for more than an hour or two at a time, sometimes a day at a time...but that's totally a Me Problem™; autism meets ADHD will do that to ya. The actual writing is pretty easy; I just wear out _fast._ Still, I _did_ stick with it and wrote a 43-page script, animated it, and it's coming out this Thursday, so...I guess everyone has their own process, eh?
I always write for my mom since she loves everything I do... 😄 But seriously, she was a English-lit teacher so I also get good feedback on all my bad grammar.
Imagine Natural Born Killers, you have a story following two thrill kill characters, but you hit the second act: who do you bring in. Bring in the cops and that’s a certain sort of movie, but bring in a night crawler press member that makes an entirely different film. One-nobody knows what the cops are doing, two-you get to see press cross the line. A lot of people will make the movie where they show cops hunting the criminals, not so many people will do the press following and that’s much more interesting. Imagine the press figure out where the bad guys are before the cops, and this is the lead in to act 3, because the audience can’t see the cops what the cops know still surprises them. So you end up with a third act: what’s the most tense version of the third act possible? In a way it’s just math. The cavalier reporter ends up in the back seat of the killers, saved only by her seatbelt. Nobody knows what she knows, she survives. That’s a story people will talk about.
Keep a notebook by the bed. For some reason right before sleeping or at the start of the morning it’s like there’s this creative ocean you’re in. One story becomes two, suddenly you have scenes to balance the main story. Then it’s just math. You only have so many scenes possible.
I usually get stuck when my story isn’t short enough😂 It’s easier to make up a long unending story than to make it short and sharp, which is often better
I have the same exact process. It feels so much less daunting, building everything brick by brick instead of trying to build a house all at once.
What did you think about Mr. John’s expression of a writer’s job? He claimed that we are to look for the truth in our characters…
If they’re made up… how can there be truth?
5:00 Damn right!
• Idea • More ideas • Beginning, middle & end • Outline • Story
• Build plots and characters • Then write the script!
Thank you
John Gray is very honest in his explaining he’s not hiding anything
I get my idea from dreams,visions,and music and reading signs
Gads, t's weird...when he's laughing and being kinda bashfully self-deprecating, he reminds of so much of my dad. Not in any other way, just those little chuckle-moments.
Anyway, when it comes to writing a script, my problem is _endurance;_ I can't stick with it for more than an hour or two at a time, sometimes a day at a time...but that's totally a Me Problem™; autism meets ADHD will do that to ya. The actual writing is pretty easy; I just wear out _fast._
Still, I _did_ stick with it and wrote a 43-page script, animated it, and it's coming out this Thursday, so...I guess everyone has their own process, eh?
What about a screenplay adaption of a famous novel?
Maybe scroll through some of these - bit.ly/3W6Wx34
I'm the same way lol all my ideas come from the shower and listening to music.
I always write for my mom since she loves everything I do... 😄
But seriously, she was a English-lit teacher so I also get good feedback on all my bad grammar.
You're so lucky!!!
What about writing a screenplay adaptation of a play script?
Some of this segments may be helpful - bit.ly/3W6Wx34
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What about a screenplay adoption on a novel?
Imagine Natural Born Killers, you have a story following two thrill kill characters, but you hit the second act: who do you bring in.
Bring in the cops and that’s a certain sort of movie, but bring in a night crawler press member that makes an entirely different film. One-nobody knows what the cops are doing, two-you get to see press cross the line.
A lot of people will make the movie where they show cops hunting the criminals, not so many people will do the press following and that’s much more interesting. Imagine the press figure out where the bad guys are before the cops, and this is the lead in to act 3, because the audience can’t see the cops what the cops know still surprises them. So you end up with a third act: what’s the most tense version of the third act possible? In a way it’s just math. The cavalier reporter ends up in the back seat of the killers, saved only by her seatbelt. Nobody knows what she knows, she survives. That’s a story people will talk about.
What screenplays for what movies did this John Gray write? The most famouse ones?
John's bio is up above in the information section. He created the TV show Ghost Whisperer.
What's the first step to writing a screenplay for you?
Keep a notebook by the bed. For some reason right before sleeping or at the start of the morning it’s like there’s this creative ocean you’re in. One story becomes two, suddenly you have scenes to balance the main story. Then it’s just math. You only have so many scenes possible.
For me it all starts with an idea however the outline is an important first step to putting that idea to paper.
You have to let the characters tell the story to YOU.
How do the characters tell the story?
Absolutely. The characters start taking on a life of their own and they teach you.
Do writers worry about length of stories? Do they ever get stuck on an idea which isn't long enough? 🤔
I usually get stuck when my story isn’t short enough😂 It’s easier to make up a long unending story than to make it short and sharp, which is often better
Means nothing too abstract. Read Syd Fields.
1.) copy and paste the work of a real artist. 2.) gendarr swap everything. 2.) call everybody else a bigot.