Screenwriting : The dream… by Samuel Chambers

I found part of the Office Space script online in high school, and I thought it was cool how a script was written, Samuel Chambers. I wanted to write like that. After reading the script and looking up one or two articles about screenwriting, I started writing scripts. I was drawing and writing short stories before that though.

How long have you been writing for Maurice Vaughan?

I started writing short stories in elementary school, Samuel Chambers. And I started writing scripts in 12th grade, but I took a long break from screenwriting at one point. What made you want to get into entertainment?

Hi Sam, I been drawing my whole life and when I found out directing was an art form, I loved it

Writing great stories was always the goal, not fame and fortune. You meet so many people who just want to be "In Hollywood" and they don't care how they break in or what they do in Hollywood once they've broken in. Too many aspiring screenwriters only write screenplays because they believe it's the easiest way in. They would abandon screenwriting in a heartbeat if somebody told them of an easier way to get through the door.

i always "made up stories" around my drawings when i was a kid – i then found what was supposed to be a page from Goldman's "Butch & Sundance" script in a high school English text book – it wasn't – but it was enough to get me interested – i've been writing off-and-on ever since

Where else can one be: used, debased, rejected, abused, rejected further, driven to madness, alcoholism and drug addiction? It's a wonderful career... for masochists.

E Langley Honestly, it sounds like pretty much any other industry and field: eg, law, commerce, medicine, academia...

Ideas pop into your head. I am not a novelist but I discovered screenwriting. Sounds like fun and I have always enjoyed movies. So I started to learn about screenwriting. And I have had a ball discovering a passion for the craft and now I am determined to write a screenplay that will someday become a film. I have achieved a level where contests tell me that I can write and tell a story well. Now I have to learn how to pitch. Onto the next level.

I started writing a bit after high school, then moved into poetry, and later returned to scriptwriting. I wrote two scripts but lost them, eventually creating the one I’m working on now. This time, I’ve started taking it seriously, understanding that this is a five-year journey. It’s been weird yet fun, if I do say so myself… Maurice Vaughan

Do you still create art, or is it mostly directing nowadays? Billy Kwack

You seem to have a true love for the craft. What are you looking to achieve in this career space? Drongo Bum

So, when it comes down to it, what is your main goal? Robert Bruinewoud

How did you come to that conclusion? E Langley

What type of stories do you create? Philip Naiman

It’s like that sometimes in any line of work, but I’m glad you took the chance. Dan Guardino

Ultimately because, like most people who want to entertain, I have an inherent need to give people a form of spiritual medicine.

The mechanism was a mental breakdown I went through around thirteen years ago. The stress I was going through at the time caused me to start writing down these stories that had been playing in my head most of my life. Like Robert Bruinewoud, I used to draw a lot of stuff from my imagination when I was a kid, and my dyslexia meant I didn't write when I could avoid it.

I find it a truly wonderful hobby and career. It's put me through hell and I've lost nearly everything in the process, but the rewards I've experienced are about as good as life gets.

Damned if I have a clue, Samuel Chambers.

Love for storytelling. An inability to keep my imagination in check

I loved the storytelling, the character’s journey, and the creative process.

A love of storytelling and a burning desire to leave my own mark with stories and/or movies that people would like - I wrote a lot of my stories with the intention of appearing in them as an actor, and I even went so far as to compose a full soundtrack for one of them, which ended up becoming an epic novel. 20 years later, it's not going to happen now.

Samuel, now that I'm in my second stint (2016-present), I'm in it for the FUN. (My first stint was from 1980 to 1994...and I looked at the money and the possible fame.)

But now, it's the fun that counts.