Mandy Partridge's Blog - Posts Tagged "screen-writing"
Self research shock.
This week I was shocked to add up how many short stories, articles, play-scripts, film-scripts and books I've written. I was starting to write a treatment of Long Pork, after an interesting Pitching from Stage to Film night at La Boite last week. I thought I'd collect articles and short stories in one folder, and looked in the external hard drive.
A Log-line is a Hook.
A Treatment is a short synopsis with spoilers and a character list.
My writing career spanned the UQ student paper, Semper Floreat, through the 1990s, which meant transferring the file to a floppy disk, using a printer at the library or at Semper to print it and submit hard copy. Later in the 90s, I was writing for fanzines like Octarine, The Book of Bud, Heretical, and some papers like the Independent Monthly and Green Left.
The old writing folder has both home print-outs, often on the reverse side of something else, and yellowed clippings from papers and zines.
A lot of these, I'll have to type back in, word for word.
The late 90s and 2000s saw me writing more play-scripts and film-scripts, as I worked in the Circus. But it was also a frustrating time. Of the 12 play-scripts I wrote, only about half got produced. Only one is visible on youtube.
All of the 7 short film scripts I wrote were produced, but very low budget. Most are visible on Youtube. Since hard disks (CDs) and external hard-drives, and then the internet, I've got more of this stuff as files.
Of the 10 books I've written, six have been published, and three are still in the writing or editing process. The first few books, I only have as print-outs. But that's possibly not a bad thing.
Glad I wrote a few books before I got one published.
I counted 11 articles, all published, 7 short stories, mostly published, and I didn't count songs and poems. Because I'd have to go through over twenty hand written journals, and I didn't have limitless time.
Should I be bothered writing a Treatment for Long Pork, and all that it entails? Why not?
The process, through Screen Queensland, seems similar to arts grant applications, and I've written a lot of those.
Writing is the one thing I've always done, even through the brief career as a performer, and all the crap casual jobs which I've done to pay the bills.
Writing- it's a Compulsion.
Screen writing, or project management, as the application suggests the funding is for, could be my next direction.
I'm still working (editing) the final Mirella Castle Investigates book, Acid Pops. I've got a Speculative Fiction book coming next, and an idea for a serial murder mystery, 'Death at the Town Criers' Tournament'.
A Log-line is a Hook.
A Treatment is a short synopsis with spoilers and a character list.
My writing career spanned the UQ student paper, Semper Floreat, through the 1990s, which meant transferring the file to a floppy disk, using a printer at the library or at Semper to print it and submit hard copy. Later in the 90s, I was writing for fanzines like Octarine, The Book of Bud, Heretical, and some papers like the Independent Monthly and Green Left.
The old writing folder has both home print-outs, often on the reverse side of something else, and yellowed clippings from papers and zines.
A lot of these, I'll have to type back in, word for word.
The late 90s and 2000s saw me writing more play-scripts and film-scripts, as I worked in the Circus. But it was also a frustrating time. Of the 12 play-scripts I wrote, only about half got produced. Only one is visible on youtube.
All of the 7 short film scripts I wrote were produced, but very low budget. Most are visible on Youtube. Since hard disks (CDs) and external hard-drives, and then the internet, I've got more of this stuff as files.
Of the 10 books I've written, six have been published, and three are still in the writing or editing process. The first few books, I only have as print-outs. But that's possibly not a bad thing.
Glad I wrote a few books before I got one published.
I counted 11 articles, all published, 7 short stories, mostly published, and I didn't count songs and poems. Because I'd have to go through over twenty hand written journals, and I didn't have limitless time.
Should I be bothered writing a Treatment for Long Pork, and all that it entails? Why not?
The process, through Screen Queensland, seems similar to arts grant applications, and I've written a lot of those.
Writing is the one thing I've always done, even through the brief career as a performer, and all the crap casual jobs which I've done to pay the bills.
Writing- it's a Compulsion.
Screen writing, or project management, as the application suggests the funding is for, could be my next direction.
I'm still working (editing) the final Mirella Castle Investigates book, Acid Pops. I've got a Speculative Fiction book coming next, and an idea for a serial murder mystery, 'Death at the Town Criers' Tournament'.
