Screenwriting : Screenwriting by John January Noble

I'm rewriting a feature script and outlining a short script for Stage 32’s November Write Club, John January Noble. What are you writing?

A man who simply picks up a pen and paper and starts writing a diary, without using technology. He disconnects from the virtual world and begins to breathe every line he writes, and his stories are great, and he realizes it's a beautiful manuscript. I'm writing Maurice.

Looking forward to hearing more about your project when you finish, John January Noble!

Are you joining November Write Club? Week 2's blog came out yesterday. www.stage32.com/blog/november-write-club-week-2-insights-from-the-stage-...

Rewriting my 20-years-in-the-making story "The Empress Project", which is basically my answer to "Duke Nukem Forever" - it's taking too damn long, it suffers from scope creep (too many plot elements and tropes sneak in, necessitating multiple rewrites to accommodate the now-epic scope of the story), and frankly, I wish I'd never written the fucking thing.

There won't be time, dear Maurice.

Finally thought of an idea that suits my goal of writing my first feature script. Meet The Sizzler on my logline page for further details! Here's to November Write Club!

Darrell Pennington Thanks for sharing Darrel. A toast ! I'm glad you had an idea for your writing.

@Stefano Pavone It's not just you. That's why the Stage32 platform was created over ten years ago, to give your ideas a starting point. So keep writing and good luck!

I'm writing a romdramedy currently. It's something I've been wanting to do- something for the 40+ crowd to see within themselves and enjoy while appealing to everyone.

Cynna Ael Good morning, 40-year-old girl!

First of all, thank you for sharing, because that's how we become great writers, through the exchange of conversations. By the way, I'm learning a lot here.

Congratulations on your efforts in writing a romantic comedy-drama, because the world scenario helps us, in small dominoes, to fit into these beautiful stories, bringing great scripts. We are looking forward to the ending and I wish you a good week!

'The party hat lies there for a moment in the musky stillness, bothered with the room's perpetual dreariness, tinged with a light hope for capri.'

Writing an "inspired by real events" screenplay...

EXT. THE SOUTHERN OCEAN – NIGHT

The sea is alive — not water but motion.

Wind howls like a living thing.

Tom’s yacht slams down a wave face, bowsprays erupting into white fire.

He grips the wheel, tethered to the cockpit, eyes locked on a compass that spins like a roulette wheel.

Every surface screams with strain. Metal groans. Sails crack like gunfire.

(Working on my FX-style half-hour comedy)

The boy’s mother is fussing over him and giving him a flurry of last minute advice.

WINTER: Okay, so grades matter but only to a point. Just stay above a three-o and no one really cares after that. You’re not some nerd who studies all the time and doesn’t party. But you’re also not some easy target for a frat, so homesick and desperate to belong to something that you down ten Irish Car Bombs in a hazing ritual and die in a pool of your own vomit with a giant dick on your face drawn in black Sharpie.

MAX: Jesus, Winter.

WINTER: I’m just saying I don’t want see David Muir on TV talking about how tragic it is that our idiot son didn’t understand the relationship between ethanol absorption and blood alcohol concentration.

ROBIN: (to Max) I thought Leo was the idiot son.

WINTER: That man is too fine to be talking shit about our family.

MAX: (to Robin) He is.

@Sandy Lane tinged with a light hope for capri... A slight monotony and a glimmer of hope. Interesting. Thank you for taking the time to share a little piece of this script with a beautiful phrase. They are watching.

@Mark Palmer The sea is alive—it is not water, but movement.

The wind howls like a living being.

Imagine this on IMAX screens around the world? Thank you for taking the time to share, Palmer. Writing is life, art. Success!!

@ Sean Rodman WINTER: I'm just saying that I don't want to see David Muir on TV talking about how tragic it is that our idiot son didn't understand the relationship between ethanol absorption and blood alcohol concentration.

Sean, I may be wrong, but it's been hours since I've seen a good comedy, especially David Muir talking about consequences and madness.

John January Noble Well, David Muir is the anchor of World News Tonight, so Winter is telling her son she doesn't want to see him wind up a cautionary tale on the nightly news.

A bright strip of cheerful morning sunlight, escaping from a window half-covered by heavy curtains, cuts through the dusty, expensively decorated, minimalist room. A mother sits in the shade, pondering something. In her hands is the death certificate of her son. The mother is 50 years old. She is a major in the Russian police. Stocky, slightly plump, with dry, dyed black hair cut short, she has a fighting look, the look of a woman capable of enduring any adversity. But now her rigid figure, with a frozen face and slumped shoulders, creates the impression of someone defeated, downtrodden.

@Antony Voronov -You really draw people into the scene. I found myself completely immersed in this writing. Very good, and thank you for taking the time to share some of your writing.

Have a creative weekend!!!

@Sean Rodman- Yes, I worked in journalism for a few years and always analyzed television news programs from around the world, and David Muir is one of them. So, I imagine a scene like this ☺️