So, as you may have ascertained, I have not been writing a lot as of late. Between stressing out about not working and working, I just haven't been getting a lot of writing done. So, when my friend Matt emailed me about Script Frenzy, I was instantly hooked.
Now, Script Frenzy is brought to you by the same people who do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), but instead of writing 50,000 words (I think), you have to write 100 pages of script. It can be comic book, screenplay, teleplay, or play (I think I got them all).
It starts 4/1 and goes to 4/30. It may seem like tons of time until it starts, but in actuality, it's not much time at all, when I think about everything I have to do before then:
1) Finish the draft of Heisty that I am working on and probably do at least one polish on it.
2) Figure out which story I want to do next - I guess it's a good problem to have, having a lot of ideas for stories to write about, but I need to pick one and stick with it, which is the hard part.
3) Once I pick the idea I need to quickly write the story, then a treatment and then a fairly detailed outline, because when it comes time to start, 3+ pages a day is not easy when you don't know exactly where your story is going. This is problem I had with Heisty - I just had a basic idea and started writing, so when the script came out to 60 pages, I just started randomly filling stuff in, and not really thinking about the story.
I've got the notecard app for the iPhone, as well as the screenplay app, so I'm going to go through both of those and my Moleskine, over the weekend and try and figure out which story will be the best, easiest, but most importantly, the story I will be the most excited about writing hardcore for a month.
I'll try and give you an idea as to what kinds of stories I'm considering over the weekend. Here's a sneak peak: They're pretty much all genre films.
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Day 14 - What a novel treatment
Brick (treatment/novella) - Rian Johnson
Since November is National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/), I thought I would take a quick look at the Brick treatment. In a preface he talks about the reaosn he wanted to do it this way was because he was intentionally trying to get a Dashiell Hammett feel and he thought a prose pass would be the best way to do it. I think it worked. I wish I had read it prior to seeing the film, but the tone is there as is most of the unique dialogue traits. The treatment is 76 pages long, so it's way longer than a traditionally treatment, but for a project like this that relies so much on tone and feel, it's was probably the way to go.
I had never really thought about using a treatment like that. I had always thought they were tools for getting the story out. Sorta like a fleshed out outline. But, this is something more, this allowed Johnson to get the the feel of the story. So, now I'm wondering if I should be using this as a way to get into the story. Since it is National Novel Writing Month, I'm seriously considering trying to write one of my scripts as a novella, just to get the tone and feel right. If nothing else it would be an interesting experiment.
Brick (Novella/Treatment/Screenplay): http://www.mypdfscripts.com/treatments/brick-treatmentnovella
Since November is National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/), I thought I would take a quick look at the Brick treatment. In a preface he talks about the reaosn he wanted to do it this way was because he was intentionally trying to get a Dashiell Hammett feel and he thought a prose pass would be the best way to do it. I think it worked. I wish I had read it prior to seeing the film, but the tone is there as is most of the unique dialogue traits. The treatment is 76 pages long, so it's way longer than a traditionally treatment, but for a project like this that relies so much on tone and feel, it's was probably the way to go.
I had never really thought about using a treatment like that. I had always thought they were tools for getting the story out. Sorta like a fleshed out outline. But, this is something more, this allowed Johnson to get the the feel of the story. So, now I'm wondering if I should be using this as a way to get into the story. Since it is National Novel Writing Month, I'm seriously considering trying to write one of my scripts as a novella, just to get the tone and feel right. If nothing else it would be an interesting experiment.
Brick (Novella/Treatment/Screenplay): http://www.mypdfscripts.com/treatments/brick-treatmentnovella
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