Dear Stage32, I wrote a novelette about 3 years ago, and by chance, it happens to be a "great" treatment for a screenplay. Backing up, I started writing poetry about 12 years ago, thinking I was a poet. I wrote a few good poems, got some of them published in respectable print journals, but I learned...
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I'm Jesse, web developer and aspiring screenwriter, age 38. I wrote a novelette that I'd like to adapt for the screen. I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Granbury.
Nice to 'meet' you, Jesse! Welcome to Stage 32! Take a look in the "screenwriting" section. There's always something happening in there. :)
Congrats on the novelette, Jesse. Great to have you here.
Hey! A fellow Texan, Jesse! Welcome to Stage 32, it's great to have you here!
Thanks, y'all :-)
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Logline ver. 1: "Dreamer tries to win over an uptown girl by making a movie about her." But it doesn't say anything about the conflict or the setting. I guess you'd have to read the treatment.
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Yeah, definitely need more in your logline... e.g. An idealsitic dreamer attempts to woe the girl of his dreams by making a movie with her as the star, as her friends and family try to stop the movie...
Expand commentYeah, definitely need more in your logline... e.g. An idealsitic dreamer attempts to woe the girl of his dreams by making a movie with her as the star, as her friends and family try to stop the movie at every turn. Obviously that's not based on your synopsis or anything, just top of my head. But it could play out a little like the woeing section of Bigfish, where he has to overcome the odds to win the girl of his dreams.
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Jesse, you should answer a few basic questions before starting a draft. Have you outlined your story? Have you constructed your story in a sequential structure as well as a 3 act structure? Do you kno...
Expand commentJesse, you should answer a few basic questions before starting a draft. Have you outlined your story? Have you constructed your story in a sequential structure as well as a 3 act structure? Do you know the theme of your project, that one golden moral that helps shape every scene and structure? Do you know what motivates your characters? And considering that you have one character split into several personalities, have you decided which one is your lead character? Writer's Block is, in opinion, is a myth. It's a term synonymous with being unprepared to start a draft. It s like trying to find Miami in the dark without a car or a map. That could be a little scary.
I've written about 40 ultra basic notecards, but they are vague.
Be less vague. Work out some of the big details and story points.