Hey fellow screenwriters!
This week, I determined I would finish my first draft of INSPIRATION INC. and I have done so.
And this film script has me in a full on writer's identity crisis. I'm realizing that I WAS a horror writer. In literature. In script format, I'm something else. And I apparently don't know what that is. Fun fun.
So, the experimental pilot episode. We are kicking it back to the drawing board gods and hoping my creative brain can figure it out.
How's your week going?
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Hey, Elle Bolan! Congratulations again on finishing the first draft! My week's going great. I finished a one-page script for November Write Club. I was gonna use it as a writing sample, but the concept is unique! I'll either pitch the one-page script, make it a longer short script, or turn it into a feature script.
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Nice! Congrats on finishing! I realised a similar thing myself; ever since I was a kid I knew I wanted to tell stories, and in my preteens I decided to commit to writing books, and as such I spent the next chunk of my life honing my skills to write novels rather than novellas and novelettes (nevermind that writing and drawing my own comics is also not off the table even though again, committed to novels). In university for the lolz I took a playwriting class and realised it was actually really fun and something I might like to do more of, but put it on the backburner because there's not much of a market for plays and my novels could eventually become them anyway.
Now, though, with my writer's block for novels entering its third, maybe even fourth year... I'm thinking maybe this whole time I really was meant to be a screenwriter. I still think some of my stories are better suited for novels and others for comics, but working on Finding Elpis (especially completing BoFS the other day, whose climax was actually quite similar to Seed's but MUCH more of a gutpunch; feels symbolic in a way lol) has made me even more certain that it's my best work and quite honestly, the only one I actually want to share with the world, and I'll do so even if I have to turn it into a literal life's work as a DIY project.
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Thanks, y'all.
Banafsheh Esmailzadeh you know, I'm far more comfortable with screenplays than I was with novels too. I wrote short fiction, novellas, short novels (slightly longer than novellas), flash, micro fiction. And poetry But screenplay format just... Unlocked something.
But now I'm like, well... What the heck do I even write?
I love how dedicated you are to this series. It's inspiring to see.
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Maurice Vaughan I love how versatile you are with the length. I tend to think of the length before I start. And congratulations on meeting your goals!
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Thanks, Elle Bolan. I might write more one-page scripts. They're fun, they're practice, and some producers want them.
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Hmm. Interesting to know.
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Elle Bolan thank you, and honestly, I agree. I think it’s because screenplays are inherently meant to be acted out by at least one person while novels are primarily meant to be read, at your own pace.
And yeah, this series honestly made me more than I made it, so that’s why I’m so hellbent and stubborn to do it my way lol
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Elle Bolan Congrats!!!!! We're twinsies, I just finished my final draft of my screenplay I had noted to to in November, so yey!!!!!!
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Congratulations @Juliana! I know that's a great feeling.