Why not? A scriptwriting contest
How many different ways can you beat a dead horse? A bunch, apparently.
Last summer I came across someone's blog talking about legitimate scriptwriting contests. How they have successfully jumpstarted people along their writing careers. Well, from the beginning, I intended that Eden M51 would make a great movie. I just thought someone else would come to the same logical conclusion and it would be spread across several Hollywood producers' desks by now.
*sigh* Well, like they say, if you want something done you have to do it yourself. And it has been a magnificent and challenging task. I have learned a tremendous amount about proper script formatting and have a good deal more respect when I am getting set to watch a movie and see the phrase, "Based on the novel by...."
All told, it has taken me one year to complete. In my first pass, I converted the entire book into script format and it turned out to be 450 pages. An action/sci-fi script (especially from an unknown, untested author) should be no more than 120 pages. That meant that almost 75% of the script had to be axed. At first there were obvious things I could delete, but it very quickly became not only difficult but painful. Whole scenes had to be cut. Entire characters had to be written out of the story. All the while still retaining the core message from the original.
Well. I think I did it. Time, and this contest, will tell if I succeeded.
Now where was I in those other stories I was writing before I got side-tracked...?
Last summer I came across someone's blog talking about legitimate scriptwriting contests. How they have successfully jumpstarted people along their writing careers. Well, from the beginning, I intended that Eden M51 would make a great movie. I just thought someone else would come to the same logical conclusion and it would be spread across several Hollywood producers' desks by now.
*sigh* Well, like they say, if you want something done you have to do it yourself. And it has been a magnificent and challenging task. I have learned a tremendous amount about proper script formatting and have a good deal more respect when I am getting set to watch a movie and see the phrase, "Based on the novel by...."
All told, it has taken me one year to complete. In my first pass, I converted the entire book into script format and it turned out to be 450 pages. An action/sci-fi script (especially from an unknown, untested author) should be no more than 120 pages. That meant that almost 75% of the script had to be axed. At first there were obvious things I could delete, but it very quickly became not only difficult but painful. Whole scenes had to be cut. Entire characters had to be written out of the story. All the while still retaining the core message from the original.
Well. I think I did it. Time, and this contest, will tell if I succeeded.
Now where was I in those other stories I was writing before I got side-tracked...?
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