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[Mark]

Edward wrote: "I'm looking at writing screenplays ... for a television show, though; I haven't given much thought to a movie."

Two of my favorite characters, one who I'm writing a real long novel about right now, started off in a television screenplay

[Stephanie]

Edward wrote: "I'm looking at writing screenplays ... for a television show, though; I haven't given much thought to a movie."

I tried to write a screenplay last year while participating in Script Frenzy. I was actually doing pretty well. I wrote 30 pages in the first 5 days and was way ahead but I didn't stick with it. I'm not quite sure why either. I guess I just wasn't into it. I was thinking of trying again this coming year but we'll see.

[Caitlan]

I've started writing sort of a screenplay. It's more of a fan fiction screenplay though. It's based off of the show Psych.

[Stephanie]

I've never seen that show. My sister says it's good and keeps telling me to watch it though.

[Edward]

My television idea takes place in the Mauchi place I occasionally write about. It's after Mauchi becomes an empire and all about a secret war between a council member and a disgraced war veteran.

[Edward]

Psych is hilarious.

[Stephanie]

Sounds like an interesting idea, Edward.

[Edward]

Yeah, but I'd never get it aired. I'd anger viewers by killing off a lot of people ... like Lost, but with actually killing off Jack Sheppard early on.

[Caitlan]

Psych is freaking amazing. You should watch it. Do you have Netflix?

That sounds cool, Edward.

[Stephanie]

No, I don't. But I have satellite and Hulu.

[Caitlan]

Oh. Cool :) Hulu is awesome.

[Stephanie]

Me too.

[Edward]

So ... how exactly does one write a screenplay? Is there a certain format to follow, or just some guideline?

[Stephanie]

Yes, there is a format which they have on the Script Frenzy site. I can give you the link if you want; I found it very useful. They have examples for several different types of plays too.

[M]

Someone I know who teaches screenwriting recommended Robert McKee’s Story. I got a copy of it but haven’t read it.

[Stephanie]

Here's a quick way to learn how to format a couple different scripts http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/howto...

Just let you all know though, it takes a while to write a screenplay with MS Word.

[M]

It takes awhile to write anything with MS Word. It’s the crummiest word processor I’ve ever used.

[Stephanie]

I like MS Word but it's not the best for screen plays just because it wasn't created for it. It is possible to write one on it though. It just takes longer than it normally would.

[Edward]

gratias tibi ago.

[Stephanie]

?

[Stephanie]

No problem!

[Caitlan]

Thanks Stephanie :)

[Mark]

Stephanie wrote: "I like MS Word but it's not the best for screen plays just because it wasn't created for it. It is possible to write one on it though. It just takes longer than it normally would."

That's so right, when I used this to write screenplays, things just wouldn't line up right, among other horrible problems with it.

[M]

A GR friend who lives in Youngstown, Ohio, said they had an earth tremor three hours ago that registered a 4.0.

[M]

I used to drive across the Ohio River on an old truss bridge from Huntington, West Virginia, to a little town called Chesapeake, on the southernmost tip of Ohio, making the rounds of the Goodwill and Salvation Army stores in the area.

[M]

I couldn’t remember the name of the little Ohio town where my wife and I used to visit the flea market, but I remembered a book I bought there. It was a book on Colonial Williamsburg. Probably because of the years I did library research, my bookshelves are ridiculously organized, so I promptly found it. When I buy a book, I always write, in code, the time-and-place information on the endpapers, near the spine. The town was called Chesapeake. It was Saturday, May 24, 1997, at 12:30, on a day that was clear and hot.

Now it’s fifteen years later. Happy New Year, Alex and all W.S.S. pirates!

[Stephanie]

Mark wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "I like MS Word but it's not the best for screen plays just because it wasn't created for it. It is possible to write one on it though. It just takes longer than it normally would..."

Yeah. Same here.

[Stephanie]

Happy New Year to you all! 4.0 that's pretty descent.

[Stephanie]

Hey guys, I just wrote a new post on my blog about a new idea and I'm hoping for some feeback on the questions posed in it. http://theservicemutations.blogspot.c...

[Stephanie]

Happy New Year, ye swashbuckling bandits!

[Edward]

Happy New Year, y'all.

[Caitlan]

Happy New Year!

[Edward]

That script frenzy is extremely helpful, Stephanie. I'm not terribly motivated to write chapter either just yet, so I think I'll spend today writing out different versions of an opening scene.

Thank you.

[Edward]

Erm ... sure, it'll be good practice.

[Edward]

Would it have to be like five-minute movie or could we just have scenes for that?

[Caitlan]

It'd be interesting.

[Edward]

Heh, my word processor doesn't seperate pages. That's going to make it difficult ... I'm going to assume a page is about thirty lines though.

I think mere scenes, as well as complete stories, should be allowed. I think a lot of us (me included) would have a lot of trouble deciding on a story that would take up the equivalant of ten minute's screen time only. I could be wrong, but for starters at least ...

[Caitlan]

Nice name, Alf XD

[Edward]

Indeed, Alf.

Anyone else intrigued by the Woman in Black movie? I only watched the trailer because I couldn't figure out from the little box that the main character was played by Daniel Radcliffe.

[Stephanie]

Edward wrote: "That script frenzy is extremely helpful, Stephanie. I'm not terribly motivated to write chapter either just yet, so I think I'll spend today writing out different versions of an opening scene.

..."

You're welcome. It was no problem at all.

[Stephanie]

Hey guys, there's a contest in another group I'm in and we sort of need more votes. I'm thinking you should be able to vote even though it's in a different group. I thought you all might be able to help out. The link to the stories is on the poll page. http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/59...


Oh and the script idea sounds like it might be fun but I'm not sure I get how it would work.

[Kymela]

I got free tea for my birthday. ^_________^

[Edward]

She's twenty-one, but somehow she didn't come back wasted.

[Kymela]

Edward wrote: "She's twenty-one, but somehow she didn't come back wasted."

ha. No money for that anyway.

The tea she gave me to drink while I was there was an açai matetini and citrus lavender sage blend. It was awesome!

[M]

Happy birthday, Saira! I only vaguely remember what it was like to be twenty-one. It was in another century.

[Kymela]

All my friends are either younger or not here.

[Kymela]

I'm going to try that. Maybe I'll finally get somewhere.

TCC has started here. I have Russian on Mondays and Wednesdays and French and Spanish on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I wish the Spanish were Hebrew or Arabic, though...

[Kymela]

Three romance languages and I have yet to get any language mixed up. While searching for a word in one language, I might think of it in another language, but unless I can find it in the proper language and I know for sure it's right, I won't say or write it. I go look it up first. Right now I'm actually working on Japanese, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Gaelic, Hungarian, Turkish and Italian as well, but all on my own since I can't find a teacher for any of them. XP Well, I have one for Arabic, but it's difficult to set things up with her.

[Caitlan]

Hey, we are singing a song in Russian for choir.

[Kymela]

You usually only get the basics out of a class. You have to find people on-line, round your town or go travel to get more. Language taught in a classroom does not evolve as quickly as in the real world.

I started Japanese because I found I was good at Latin.