Writing A Great Script Fast Workshop: Step 2 Story Goals

Screenwriting class sample from the "Writing A Great Script Fast" DVD workshop at www.MyFlik.com

Category:

Film & Animation

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• screenwriting
• class
• free
• workshop
• DV
• filmmaking

[guyNbluejeans]

@MyFlik1 Since you enjoy writing via the old fashioned way, you might be interested to know that if you go to Walmart or Office Max or some such place, you can for around $5.00 pick yourself up a pen called a Zebra F-301 BP that I've found doesn't have the propensity to clog-up. Pens that force one to have to scribble to get them to issue ink have always been one of my pet peeves, and so I just thought I'd pass the info on to you.:-)

[guyNbluejeans]

@MyFlik1 Nuvotech is the software company, and I really know very little about it except for what I read on the Internet. I got it in yesterday's mail and will soon be checking it out on my computer, though my tech savvy is such that I worry a little that I'll either mess things up ... or not understand how to use it.

I thank you for wishing me good vibes and luck with my story.

I would be a liar if I said I was a "passionate" writer, as for now I'm just a guy with some ideas to run with... .

[MyFlik1]

@guyNbluejeans Typing hurts my hands and body way more than using a pen and paper. I can work on a story for hours with a pen and paper but only maybe and hour or two typing. Film is a visual art and I like to draw ideas for wow shots and sets and character poses while writing the script. Everyone has their own way of doing things. People get so stuck on what software to use they seem to miss the creative part sometimes. I like touching paper, clipping out pictures and making film worlds.

[MyFlik1]

@guyNbluejeans I thought I saw on Amazon that the software was a Microsoft product. You are just the first one to comment in 19 videos and three years on a software that you use for writing scripts, and you seem so into it and know so much about it. I hope you are just a very passionate writer and I wish you lots of good vibes and luck with your story! The main thing is writing a great script - which we both agree! I spent a lot of time writing scripts when I was young that did not work right.

[guyNbluejeans]

@MyFlik1 I bought an expensive pen a while back thinking that it would be great fun to sit in a chair with a legal pad and whip out reams of good stuff. The only problem was/is that my nerves are so shot that thoughts in my mind don't transfer well through my arm and hand and into the pen, thus an embarrassing disaster occurs when the ink hits the paper.:-(

Glad to know that you're adroit in your penmanship abilities.*s*

[guyNbluejeans]

@MyFlik1@MyFlik1 ^scratching head^ Why do you say that I sound like a Microsoft employee (they have nothing to do with Movie Outline, insofar as I know)?

My suspicion is that there are as many methods and formulas to screenplay writing as there are human personalities. But that's not to suggest that some methods aren't better than others.

Bottomline is in the results, yes?:-)

[MyFlik1]

@guyNbluejeans You sound like you work as a paid comment person by Microsoft! Anyhow good luck with your script and have fun with your new program.

One of the big reasons I like to spend so much time planning the story, is to avoid rewrites which I find quite painful. Some people just write a script with a few main plot points then spend 20 rewrites trying to weave all the other stuff they find out they need to have. Like something interesting happening every few seconds to shift emotions.

[MyFlik1]

@guyNbluejeans Everyone needs to find what works best for their own writing process. I find writing on the computer and planning my story on the computer to be very draining. I like a 3 ring binder with my WAGSF Workbook to add pictures to and extra pages. If you do computer animation or filmmaking, you do not want to use your hands for too much typing since it hurts your wrists. I type the 40 plot points, then treatment but do the rest by pen and paper and only type again for the final script.

[guyNbluejeans]

@MyFlik1 Thanks for taking the time to check it out. The most recent update of Movie Outline has somewhere around 100 additional improvements, including being able to import to and from Final Draft. It also now allows one to see the whole screenplay and work on it that way via an option instead of being restricted to doing those things in the other format.

Btw, I'm not as cocky as some of my comments might suggest; just having fun and feeling pretty stoked about some light at the end of the...

[guyNbluejeans]

@guyNbluejeans CONTINUED: .. give wasting time the boot and create LOTS of screenplays, including two or three more sequels to the one mentioned. All in all it sounds like great fun and considering all the garbage I see on TV and at the theater it will be an exciting challenge to use my creativity to see if I can get some of that big cash out there to flow my way!:-)