Screenwriting : Your creative output for 2018 by Phillip E. Hardy, "The Real Deal"

Phillip E. Hardy, "The Real Deal"

Your creative output for 2018

As we move headlong into the holiday season, and the inevitable year’s end, many of us script scribes will reflect on what we’ve written this past year. I’m currently working on my last screenplay for the year. And if I can finish this puppy in December, I’ll be very satisfied with my creative output for the year.

What about you? When you look back on 2018, will it be with creative satisfaction or otherwise?

Doug Nelson

Satisfied? More or less. I lost a lot of production and writing time as we moved, remodeled our new home, I rebuilt my tv studio, spent lots of time trying to rebuild a production crew (to no avail). I'm about halfway through a FL that I want to dump on the spec market after the 1st of the year. So all in all - more or less.

Phillip E. Hardy, "The Real Deal"

Doug: Moving is always a pain. Particularly when you cross 1500 miles, have to wait for your house to be finished and spend 6 weeks in a hotel with two dogs.

Craig D Griffiths

I plan to take some uninterrupted time to get my studio at up to date. Get my whiteboards back up and going. I have a few stories ruminating in my head. I will work on each of these as they inspire me.

I intend to launch a podcast with some stories that are good, but not movies. Let the world tell me what they are worth.

I will also spend many hours playing with my new camera. I intend to do some shorts in the next few months. I also have three contained features, one of them will win the battle to be born and I will do my best to produce it in the next 12 months.

Karen LaMantia

Doug- How can you lose time...? Phillip- that sounds like the makings of a great comedy screenplay. Craig- you are on target with the physical moving around and organizing. I find it very helpful when I need to allow the creative solution to come through...Picking the one most fun to write helps, too.

Shawn Speake

I'm not satisfied with my output. But I did increase my understanding thanks to Kindle and Audible, and that's part of the problem. I'm learning new techniques at a faster rate than I'm writing, and I have to incorporate new knowledge.

Brian Shell

Geez, isn't that the truth Shawn. Like takin' a drink from a fast-flowing fire hydrant. Glad my 2018 creative output included publishing 2 books - "Student Study Cave" & "100 Names of Cats and Dogs"

Richard M. Renneboog

My creative out put for 2018? Well, I did complete a script for a sequel to "The Princess Bride" and asked the late William Goldman if he would consider looking at it. I thought it only appropriate. But with his passing last week, that puts an end to that route. In September I posted the logline for it on a spec script logline site, and although the site owners said it was the best logline they had seen that month out of more than a hundred that had been posted in September, I have not heard any more about it that I think is worth pursuing there. Maybe an agent would be appropriate at this point...

I also began serious work on a fantasy tale that has been bubbling away in my head for a while now. As of this moment, I am nearing the completion of the first draft of what looks like it will become a trilogy, the story just keeps growing in depth as its world is created.

Joey Madia

It has been my best year ever. Not only the most contracts and new clients but the best work I've done so far. Now to make the most of it in 2019!

Doug Nelson

Karen - if time is infinite, how come I never have enough?

Ted Westby

Phillip, anytime I write FADE OUT or THE END on anything I feel damn'tastic about it and this year saw both.

Write on!

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