BoJangles
I've written a few. Would be more than happy to give advice too. The primary piece of advice is this:
Write, and write, then write some more, until you have a first-draft length script (a page of script per minute on screen is a common, if often inaccurate measure). Once that is done, spend 20 bucks and register it with the Writers Guild of America before you go asking people for critiques and advice, that way you're protected. You can register subsequent drafts (as often as you like) for twenty bucks a pop. It may not hurt to have people sign a Non-Disclosure before you show them too, just to be safe.
But the key component to writing is writing, and re-writing, and then re-writing. Getting a loose beginning, middle and end on the page, even if they will all change drastically in re-writes, is the best thing you can do, IMHO.
Of course, I could be utterly wrong. it's been known to happen.
Thanks,
Travis
TravisLegge Wrote:BoJangles
I've written a few. Would be more than happy to give advice too. The primary piece of advice is this:
Write, and write, then write some more, until you have a first-draft length script (a page of script per minute on screen is a common, if often inaccurate measure). Once that is done, spend 20 bucks and register it with the Writers Guild of America before you go asking people for critiques and advice, that way you're protected. You can register subsequent drafts (as often as you like) for twenty bucks a pop. It may not hurt to have people sign a Non-Disclosure before you show them too, just to be safe.
But the key component to writing is writing, and re-writing, and then re-writing. Getting a loose beginning, middle and end on the page, even if they will all change drastically in re-writes, is the best thing you can do, IMHO.
Of course, I could be utterly wrong. it's been known to happen.
Thanks,
Travis
Write, write, write, and rewrite; that has definitely worked for me in my limited experience, and I will now try to keep my beginning middle and end "loose" as per the advice
...but I'm not going guild. The guild and their strikin' ways are supposedly a big reason why we do not have PHANTASM V :/
Mr. Briggs Inc. Wrote:Write, write, write, and rewrite; that has definitely worked for me in my limited experience, and I will now try to keep my beginning middle and end "loose" as per the advice
...but I'm not going guild. The guild and their strikin' ways are supposedly a big reason why we do not have PHANTASM V :/
Here's the cool thing, Mr. Briggs:
You can register a screenplay with the WGA without being a member. You get all of the benefits of having a registered legal verifiable date without any of the WGA's bullshit.
And its cheaper than a copyright and provides for multiple draft revisions.
All in all, a pretty sweet deal.
I have so much ideas but I'm too lazy to write
TravisLegge Wrote:Here's the cool thing, Mr. Briggs:
You can register a screenplay with the WGA without being a member. You get all of the benefits of having a registered legal verifiable date without any of the WGA's bullshit.
And its cheaper than a copyright and provides for multiple draft revisions.
All in all, a pretty sweet deal.
Huh, I thought they'd be stricter than that; that's pretty awesome o.O
I think I'm going to do ScriptFrenzy this year after taking last year off. Anyone else going to do it?
never wrote a script. Wrote a book. It'll never see the light of day though. My editing skills are about as funny as Jimmy Fallon.
PitWeston Wrote:never wrote a script. Wrote a book. It'll never see the light of day though. My editing skills are about as funny as Jimmy Fallon.
Hey, don't count yourself out; writing a book is a good accomplishment, if you think people would be interested in sharing that, you should try your best to seize the opportunity
TerrorScribe Wrote:I think I'm going to do ScriptFrenzy this year after taking last year off. Anyone else going to do it?
I'll be working with a partner for scriptfrenzy. Nick Tapalansky, who wrote Awakening for Archaia Comics
Awakening is a zombie comic
Awakening Review on Amazon
It's pretty sweet.
PitWeston Wrote:never wrote a script. Wrote a book. It'll never see the light of day though. My editing skills are about as funny as Jimmy Fallon.
Mr. Briggs Inc. Wrote:Hey, don't count yourself out; writing a book is a good accomplishment, if you think people would be interested in sharing that, you should try your best to seize the opportunity
My girlfriend is a prose writer, and I gotta tell you, I am blown away by her skills. I think writing a book is WAY harder than writing a script.
PitWeston- hire an editor. You should pursue it!
I always say I will and always say I never will. Let's say my grammar and spelling is horrid. I mean, real bad. Would an editior tell me to 'eff off' or will they do their best to aid me?
By they way, my book, it's a book about good vs. evil.
religion. Everyone's favorite subject.
PitWeston Wrote:I always say I will and always say I never will. Let's say my grammar and spelling is horrid. I mean, real bad. Would an editior tell me to 'eff off' or will they do their best to aid me?
By they way, my book, it's a book about good vs. evil.
religion. Everyone's favorite subject.
If you pay someone to help you its a little different than working with an editor already in the biz. Find someone who knows how to write/spell/ect and give them a small fee to go over your work and help out. Then you submit it for publishing.