Renee Lucas Wayne: Playwright, screenwriter and theatre director in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kyle Haines
Does listening to music while writing help you?

For me it does. I can't write with pure silence. My question for you guys is that, does this help you? I've been wondering this for a little while.

Frank Hauser

Music most definitely helps me. Sometimes I have to make sure that I have music playing BEFORE I start so I'm eased into the right headspace, otherwise I get distracted by whatever shiny thing happens to catch my attention. #adhdwriting

Tasha Lewis

All the time. Illustration when I have been location scouting via Luxury film homes on my Stage 32 Wall, the music in each video not only motivates me but gives me story ideas.

Debbie Elicksen

Sometimes I will have music on, but when it's hair metal or a song I really love, it totally distracts me because then I feel like getting up to dance.

Renee Lucas Wayne

Hi David. Happy to connect. Curious...what made you ask?

Renee Lucas Wayne

hey steve! happy for the request. quick question: do you have video editing experience as well?

Renee Lucas Wayne

gone for (more than) a minute...back in the saddle. looking for theater/film creatives in/around cambridge, md. so far landscape looks extremely dry. please...holla if you hear me!

Renee Lucas Wayne

j...it's been a minnit. whatcha workin' on now?

Jerry Doubles

There is always one screenplay on the run. Currently workin' on an adventure with the workin' title: The wolf King" -- thanks for checkin'. What abot yu??

Stacy Gentile
The Motivator or Torture - you decide

So as I have been working on the screenplay Absolution, I kept getting the movie poster image in my head. In my day job, I am a marketing guy. So rather than fight it (which wasn't working) I just produced the damn thing and put it on the wall in actual size. I can't decide if I am motivating myself...

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Beth Fox Heisinger

That's great, Stacy! What a fun way to motivate yourself! Now, perhaps, begin to develop another story while you're polishing up "Absolution." Use it to keep going! Don't be too precious about your first darling. ;)

Shawn Speake

That's a good look on the poster, Stacy.

Jean-Pierre Chapoteau

Excellent poster. I think it's great motivation.

Renee Lucas Wayne
Let's talk about funding...

...those of you who write and shoot your own films, how did you fund them? crowdfunding? personal assets? 2nd mortgage? loans? credit cards? and do you raise ALL money up front, then shoot? pay-as-you-go? use the barter system with other artists? please...do...tell!

Liam Lacy

Crowdfunding is pretty useful, but you need a good campaign to generate a sizeable amount of money. I'm primarily a writer, so at this point I write projects that can be made with minimal money and fu...

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Nardz Belen

I agree with you, Liam! Sometimes, it's a question of values. A casino player doesn't mind losing thousands or even millions of pesos (our currency in the Philippines) . Yet, he or she will not even share in a P10,000.00 for the production of a good movie project.

Renee Lucas Wayne

@alle: i'm a newbie. what do you mean when you say ' If a project is on a royalty basis, then all people are royalty'? @eric: how short was your short? and when you say you shot it in a day, how many hours did you work, exactly. (p.s. i'm a little afraid of craigslist! LOL)

Jerry Doubles
More than one script at a time-

When you are buried in one story, writing its screenplay, then another pops and the third drops, streaming down through your veins, perhaps a fourth-- damn, I find this pretty challenging! What is your experience?? How do you juggle through several screenplays to write at the same time??

Renee Lucas Wayne

i work on the one where the characters are speaking the loudest. the noisey ones won't be quiet until they're satisfied. LOL

Jerry Doubles

Oh! Yeah? LOL! Renee-

Jerry Doubles

Alle, you must be some kind of a human robot (no disrespect intended)- Multi-tasking!

Damaly Shepherd

Hi, thank you for adding me!

Renee Lucas Wayne
How About a Philadelphia Meet-up?

Would like to get some face-time with like minds in the area. Any takers?

Renee Lucas Wayne
While The Gettin's Good - The Reprise
While The Gettin's Good - The Reprise
Help our audience fall in love...Again. | Check out 'While The Gettin's Good - The Reprise' on Indiegogo.

GIRL TALK: Vaness chides Kenyatta about the lack of love in her life in "While The Gettin's Good"

FAMILY AFFAIR: Big brother Ray confronts a (nearly) naked stranger in "While The Gettin's Good"

Renee's network

Jerome Wilhort
Gabriel Larre
David Obaniyi
Shawn Schaffer
Omar Brown
Rashida Lemmons-Weber
Tim Beck
Steve Okrepky
Kyle Holdsworth
Allen Clark
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