Guy Palace: Actor, key grip and screenwriter in Washington, D. C..

Guy Palace

Read this at break from work and read it twice! Perfect way to explore characters and to get to know them. Spreadsheets and questionnaires I never bothered with (and it showed in my writing). The narrative approach is on target with me. Thanks. Will share.

Shannon K. Valenzuela

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you found it helpful!

Guy Palace

Looks like I should look into The Writers Room. But first, perhaps I should fully say hello to Stage32 in a well thought out bio ....

Dustin Quinteros
Pitch Deck, Series Bible... Is there a difference?

I have my opinions regarding pitch decks, not a fan but, that's another story. My question is, does anyone really see a difference in the two? Isn't a series bible and pitch deck essentially the same thing? Besides a few minor differences... thoughts, am I wrong? If so, set me straight.

CJ Walley

Seems you closed your account, Dan. I can reactivate if you want and you can upload your pitch decks.

CJ Walley

Account reactivated, my dude.

Donnalyn Vojta

Yes. They are different in terms of some of their contents. A series bible includes short summaries of upcoming episodes and ideas for future seasons. For movie lookbooks (not known as "bibles"), you...

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Guy Palace

Casting Director. Now you're in for it. How often do you face a barrage of headshots?

Guy Palace

Thanks for reaching out. I'm new to Stage 32.

Karen "Kay" Ross
Final Draft 12 Crashing?

Has anyone else had issues with Final Draft 12 crashing on their PC when using the Beat Board? Any tips on how to prevent the crash?

Thanks in advance!

Doug Nelson

I upgraded to FD12 because of all the buzz about how good its Beat Board system is. I'm 'old school' so I learned to do beat sheets with a #2 lead pencil & a note book. After struggling with the FD sy...

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Karen "Kay" Ross

I found a thread that mentions turning off the Outline function while using the Beat Board, which seems to allow it to work without crashing. So far so good.

Also, just signed up for Prewrite - thank y...

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Guy Palace

And here I was, just about to invest in FD. Prewrite. Will look em up tomorrow. Thanks.

Mike Romoth
Greetings and good luck with your projects!

I imagine there are many like myself who took the last year to hunker down and get those projects finished. Now, it's "go" time, right? Go make that happen, go make that real. Nice to see some familiar faces/names from back in the day on Stage32.

Guy Palace

Still hunkered down on first draft of first script. Plan is to finish, then participate in an online course for what I need to look for, beats, story arcs, etc.

Daniel Stuelpnagel

I built a visual outline and concept art for a sprawling sci-fi epic during quarantine, pages of notes and outline and wrote scattered scenes, but then this year shifted to some feature scripts in my...

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Paul Meskunas
First post

Hi Everyone,

So glad to be here. I joined the Stage 32 community a couple months ago. I am really enjoying the webinars and other educational offerings here. I submitted my first completed screenplay, Lush Life, to the Stage 32 Comedy Feature Film contest. That felt so great. Can't wait for the feedb...

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Paul Meskunas

Thanks everyone. : )

Paul Meskunas

Guy Palace Sorry, too early to reveal!

Guy Palace

Paul Meskunas I live in DC. If research leads to LoC, let me know. Just saying.

Dustin Quinteros
Know your genre, Old School thought, or words of Wisdom?

We've all heard the saying, "Know your genre", but why pigeonhole yourself? Why limit your story telling? If you write horror, but you have a great idea for a comedy or drama, should you not write it? Art is art after all. While most of us have a particular style of writing is that style limited to...

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Dustin Quinteros

Lot of responses on this one, was hard to keep up but, the consensus seems to be good story telling is good storytelling. Now we just need to get the rest of the industry (the gatekeepers) to figure that out.

Jane Allyson

I DONT WRITE ANYTHING IF I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. HATE WASTING PAPER

Melody Mundy

I must be a 1000 people because I'm comfortable in whatever voice I want to write about. My first short is about two Asian women, my next about two African American brothers and my next feature about...

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Paul Innocent

I've started my odyssey on Odysee, if you follow me on there too I'd really appreciate it. And if you drop a comment on this video, https://cutt.ly/czVVGwu I can follow you back. THANK YOU & have a great day!

Julie Gervais

Hi Paul and thanks for the connection! I'm just getting started here and look forward to learning more!

Asia Field

Hi Paul, Great to meet you.

Guy Palace

Glad to be on board. Let's see where things take us.

Guy Palace

Congratulations!

Guy Palace
Writer, Actor

Hey folks! Brand-spanking new to these here parts. Working on first feature and LOVED the Netflix webinar. Need more info on Pitch Package as, boy, do I have an idea to pitch. (Just show me the end of that line and I'll take my place, thank you).

Karen "Kay" Ross

Hey, Guy Palace! My name is Kay, I'm the Community Manager here at Stage 32. If you'd like to learn more about myself and the Stage32 Team, we have an intro blog: https://www.stage32.com/blog/Meet-the...

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Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Guy. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

This is a network for you, built by you. Like mo...

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Amanda Toney

Hello Guy -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you won'...

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