What do you think is better to write more of nowadays? Specs or Pilots?
What do you think is better to write more of nowadays? Specs or Pilots?
Hello everyone. I'm a writer, filmmaker and creative executive who also paints and does a bit of work in the music world as well. Look forward to connecting with new people. Below you can find a link to watch my most recent short film, which played 18 film festivals worldwide and won a number of awa...
Expand postHello everyone. I'm a writer, filmmaker and creative executive who also paints and does a bit of work in the music world as well. Look forward to connecting with new people. Below you can find a link to watch my most recent short film, which played 18 film festivals worldwide and won a number of awards.
https://filmshortage.com/dailyshortpicks/automated-irritation/
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Hello all! My name is Helena Victoria and I'm new to Stage 32. I'm a working actor in Dallas, Texas looking to connect with other creatives! I'm slowly adding credits onto my profile so bare with me. =) My passion as an artist began in Theatre, but I'm happy to say that I crossed over into the Film...
Expand postHello all! My name is Helena Victoria and I'm new to Stage 32. I'm a working actor in Dallas, Texas looking to connect with other creatives! I'm slowly adding credits onto my profile so bare with me. =) My passion as an artist began in Theatre, but I'm happy to say that I crossed over into the Film and Commercial world this year!
Besides acting, I work as a Production Assistant, Substitute Teacher, and Visual Merchandiser. If you are looking for someone to help in your productions, I'm more than welcome to help. Lets get connected!
Thrilled to heave you here, Helena!
Thank you so much Richard for the warm welcome!
Hey dear friends, I want very important information from you guys. In fact, I am an Indian scriptwriter if my script is bought by an agency or a producer in the United States. So if the front party is...
Expand commentHey dear friends, I want very important information from you guys. In fact, I am an Indian scriptwriter if my script is bought by an agency or a producer in the United States. So if the front party is calling me in the United States in our country, then what is the cost of the visa and tickets? Do they put everything in coming? From my side or will I have to put it in my pocket? And how is the agreement between a writer producer's director? Let me tell you about this process well.
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I've endeavored to rewrite three screenplays penned by others. And, in two out of three cases, think I did a good job. However, none of these experiences turned out favorably. In two of these cases, the rewrites involved collaboration with the original writers. The third rewrite involved a script th...
Expand postI've endeavored to rewrite three screenplays penned by others. And, in two out of three cases, think I did a good job. However, none of these experiences turned out favorably. In two of these cases, the rewrites involved collaboration with the original writers. The third rewrite involved a script that a producer sat on for nearly twenty years. That last project was two years ago and since then, I've only done one rewrite of another writer's short script and I was paid in full, in advance. I'm pretty sure the guy hated what I did but never said anything. So the lesson learned is get the money up front.
I don't think doing rewrites of another's work ever really ends well. My work has been rewritten by others who I'm convinced didn't know their nose from a hole and I've had the misfortune to rewrite s...
Expand commentI don't think doing rewrites of another's work ever really ends well. My work has been rewritten by others who I'm convinced didn't know their nose from a hole and I've had the misfortune to rewrite scripts by other scribes who I'm sure had no idea what they were doing. But you know, just because their pov and mine may not be in sync really doesn't matter in the long run. I've just learned to live and let live. Except for a few wackos out there, it seems to work pretty well.
Doug: Thanks for your post.
They say writing or rewriting other people's ideas are how most screenwriters make their money, so yeah, we have to grin and bear it... and execute good contracts with staged payments along the way (for features).
Hey dear friends, I want very important information from you guys. In fact, I am an Indian scriptwriter if my script is bought by an agency or a producer in the United States. So if the front party is...
Expand commentHey dear friends, I want very important information from you guys. In fact, I am an Indian scriptwriter if my script is bought by an agency or a producer in the United States. So if the front party is calling me in the United States in our country, then what is the cost of the visa and tickets? Do they put everything in coming? From my side or will I have to put it in my pocket? And how is the agreement between a writer producer's director? Let me tell you about this process well.
Hi, First of all, I would like to thank you thank you Richard "RB" Botto that you started a big campaign which due to which all artists from around the world are coming in contact with each other and some are learning from each other and I am very happy that I too I'm part of this one of your campai...
Expand postHi, First of all, I would like to thank you thank you Richard "RB" Botto that you started a big campaign which due to which all artists from around the world are coming in contact with each other and some are learning from each other and I am very happy that I too I'm part of this one of your campaigns
I want you an information. I am a Bharti Hollywood writer and I am just working on a Hollywood project. The problem is that I do not speak United States language, can I write my simple English language which my country runs in India Is it not a problem, and will not my script be accepted in Hollywood Industry, Los Angeles? Please do me what do I do? Because I do not know the United States language well
I am waiting for your answers, I hope you will show me some way soon
Thank you .........
Hey Raj... I think if you have a great story, you can tell it in simple English language. However, the biggest difficulty you will have is Dialog for your script. It is the dialog that can often reall...
Expand commentHey Raj... I think if you have a great story, you can tell it in simple English language. However, the biggest difficulty you will have is Dialog for your script. It is the dialog that can often really bring a character to life. The words we speak, we choose, are something that defines us, whether we realize it or not. So I think you will have to solve that hurdle. Maybe you can find somebody on this site to collaborate with when the time comes, and they can help you with dialog. Godspeed
Dear Andy Crittenden ...
Hi, I love reading your comments, actually I come to the English language of my country and I can play with words. I can write well to the dialogue scene but do not do too much. I need the producer and director. Please help peoplePleasure meeting you. Patricia Poulos
Some fantastic answers here (which is no surprise). So I'll just add thank you for the good words, Raj!
Thank you, Sir. Richard "RB" Botto I'm so happy to meet you. Sir, I need your help.
Science Fiction Hollywood script has completed and now I want to sell it to you with it, I hope you will help me
Joan Didion is one of the great writers of the last 100 years. Or 500 years. No..make that the total amount of years that people have been writing. She began writing as a teen, re-typing Hemingway stories. As she states in a Paris Review interview from 1978:
"Hemingway taught me how sentences worke...
Expand postJoan Didion is one of the great writers of the last 100 years. Or 500 years. No..make that the total amount of years that people have been writing. She began writing as a teen, re-typing Hemingway stories. As she states in a Paris Review interview from 1978:
"Hemingway taught me how sentences worked. When I was fifteen or sixteen I would type out his stories to learn how the sentences worked. I taught myself to type at the same time. A few years ago when I was teaching a course at Berkeley, I reread A Farewell to Arms and fell right back into those sentences. I mean they’re perfect sentences. Very direct sentences, smooth rivers, clear water over granite, no sinkholes. "
After working as an editor at Vogue in New York, Joan moved back to California, and started writing her great novels, books and screenplays with her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Together, they wrote The Panic in Needle Park, Play It as It Lays, A Star Is Born, True Confessions, and Up Close & Personal.
Those are some seriously brilliant screenplays, and some seriously brilliant films.Here is a baker’s dozen of dope quotes on writing from one of the world's greatest writers, Joan Didion. The first one really resonates with me the most, and is the one that she is most famous for saying. They are all great beliefs for writers to write by and to live by, and some are great themes to explore in your writings, too, and can also help with your verisimilitude.
Joan Didion Quotes On Writing
1. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
2 “Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
3 “We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
4. “Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.”
5. “Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
6. “Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
7. “Writers are always selling somebody out. “
8. “Writing is like painting, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.”
9. “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want, and what I fear.”
10. “Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.”
11. “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves is so radically that they remake it in his image.”
12. “We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses, we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves.”
13. “I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that profess is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it.”
Man…I’d do anything for Joan Didion…cut her grass with a pair of scissors…wash her windows with Q-Tips …kill rats in her yard with my teeth….anything. I hope she’ll become a member of Stage32. I’d love to have her here -sharing her thoughts and feelings, commenting on what she reads, challenging writers to think better, and to be better. I’d love to have her as a member here. That would be awesome - wouldn’t it?
Patricia: yeah, Joan Didion's greatness as a writer is zen-like. I know at least a few writers who in the last couple weeks started reading her stuff, and have been affected by it. So that's a great t...
Expand commentPatricia: yeah, Joan Didion's greatness as a writer is zen-like. I know at least a few writers who in the last couple weeks started reading her stuff, and have been affected by it. So that's a great thing.
Here is a link to an article written by Alexa Ardeljan-Braden about Joan Didion and Los Angeles. Just typing that made me think of Patti Smith's poem about New York. They're not quite the same overall feelings, but maybe they are, I don't know. Patti Smith's: "New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me. New York is the thing that perverted me. New York is the thing converted me. New York is the thing that I love."
Here is the link to Alexa's article about Joan Didion. And if you click on Alexa's name there, she has written many other great articles, too.
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/joan-di...
Dear Patricia! Thank you sooo much!! I am very honored by your kind words!!! :-)
हाय मैं एक भारतीय लेखकों हूं और मुझे परियोजना के लिए आपसे बात करनी है ताकि आप मुझसे बात कर सकें। मैं आपके संदेश की प्रतीक्षा कर रहा हूं। मुझे आशा है कि आप मुझे पहले से कहीं ज्यादा संदेश भेजेंगे।...
Expand commentहाय मैं एक भारतीय लेखकों हूं और मुझे परियोजना के लिए आपसे बात करनी है ताकि आप मुझसे बात कर सकें। मैं आपके संदेश की प्रतीक्षा कर रहा हूं। मुझे आशा है कि आप मुझे पहले से कहीं ज्यादा संदेश भेजेंगे।
Raj: yeah...kinda....but I think Joan was just trying to show how disaffected they could be, and wasn't taking a stand either way on it, if I'm reading your words right. Heh-heh.
Translation: Even here in our faraway and exotic land we have heard of "The Bill," a most venerated denizen of screenwriting websites and prowler of streets with bag of candy. Namaste.
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Not according to this post, Phil.
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I think it was just a derogatory sling at spec scripts in existing universes/shows/channels. The commenter was saying it was not their preference to do anything but original work. I'm not aware of cur...
Expand commentI think it was just a derogatory sling at spec scripts in existing universes/shows/channels. The commenter was saying it was not their preference to do anything but original work. I'm not aware of current fellowships but in the 90s, the only way into TV writing was to have current, on-air, viable broadcast shows that you had done at least two prospective scripts for. Usually a half hour example and an hour example.
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A spec is a SPEC, no matter if you're writing feature-length movie screenplays or TV pilots.
Warner Bros TV fellowship (free submission) wants a writing sample of a current TV show. If you make the 2nd round, they ask for an original pilot SPEC.
Yes, that's my point, a pilot IS a spec.
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All of these perspectives are spot on. So much has changed over the years, too.
So to add to the thread, my perspective is:
You write a PILOT if you have a "big" idea. Original. Something you can't sto...
Expand commentAll of these perspectives are spot on. So much has changed over the years, too.
So to add to the thread, my perspective is:
You write a PILOT if you have a "big" idea. Original. Something you can't stop thinking about. Maybe you want to produce it yourself or pitch the idea at festivals. So you create the world, the characters, write the first episode (maybe a second). and then a show bible. You are likely an indie writer if you do this, or have been hired by someone to write their "big" idea.
You write a SPEC for an existing show you admire and think you can emulate. You choose to do this if you're trying to get into a writer's room. You may also choose to do this to add to your portfolio to show diversity in your writing. Or, because the fellowship you're going after requires one.
Both - are still SPECS. :)