Screenwriting. Hmmmm.
The bad news is, that screenwriting today is a very tough,
very rough, very lonely, and even heartbreaking business.
However, direct from the so-what-else-is-new news department,
screenwriting has always been a very, tough, rough, lonely, and
heartbreaking business.
So. What to do... what to do. Well, what do you want to do?
Do you really want to be a screenwriter? Are you thinking about writing a
screenplay? Are you thinking about thinking about writing a screenplay?
Are you wondering which comes first, the chicken or the screenplay?
Are you intending to write your screenplay really totally for sure, just as soon as you drop from the womb of your gestating mind that single most greatest unique idea of ideas that all the production companies will slip and slide over their own drool for the opportunity to option first?
Or are you actually sitting there with Final Draft or Movie Magic up on the screen? Are there any words yet? Are you actually working on your screenplay? Page 3, page 17, page 83? Don't know where the hell to start? Hey, are you working on it today? Already did, plan to later, thinking maybe tomorrow?
Oh, wait! I know, I know! This'll be fun. Let's play 'Lets Make A Script'. For fairness sake we'll split the game into groups. Group One and Group Two.
Group One : Let's play that you already know all the basic mechanics of writing a screenplay. Let's also play like you really want to write a screenplay. Or even another screenplay.
Group Two : Let's play like you want to expand your current writing abilities into the specialized art and craft of screenwriting. And, of course, let's also play like you really want to write a screenplay.
So, Groups, now comes the totally fun part.
Everybody -- just pick Door Number 1 -- or Window Number 2.
Oh, totally, dudes and dudettes! I smell WINNERS here!
Those of you, in either Group One or Group Two, who picked Door Number 1...
Hooray! Congratulations! Whoopee! You WINNERS YOU! And your prize is...
Permission to turn off phone, close all browser windows, fuggetabout your facebook and twitters, get an espresso, place butt firmly in chair, and get to writing, you sillies. We don't care what time it is.
Plus a huge loving slightly-empathetic how-do-you-do and a blisteringly tropical welcome to keep coming back here to the Jungle. We'll always be here to offer you some absurdly sharp blade, a hacksaw, names, dates, and places of the very, very guilty, or some other very handy Jungle tool to help you slash and cut and sweat your way through all the incredibly thick underbrush.
Those of you who picked Window Number 2... well, gosh and golly. Sorry. But that's the escape route.
Um... man up and try the door next time.
INT. OFFICE - NIGHT
Bob sits in a chair crosslegged, staring across the room towards his desk. The fuzzy blue glow from the computer screen provides the only light. He stretches, sighs.
BOB
I hate myself.
He slides the chair back over to the desk. Sits. Stares at the screen again. Sighs. Poises to type. poises. poises.
I thought this was going
to be easier.
He reaches over turns off the monitor and computer. Gets up. leaves the darkness of the room.
I
elit. Fusce tempor arcu ac urna. Fusce congue eleifend mi. Pellentesque metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit amet, nulla. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean condimentum, odio quis pharetra digniss, diam nisl dignissim diam, eu interdum magna erat sit amet metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit sectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean condimentum, odio quis pharetra
elit. Fusce tempor arcu ac urna. Fusce congue eleifend mi. Pellentesque metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit amet, nulla. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean condimentum, odio quis pharetra dignissim, diam nisl dignissim diam, eu interdum magna erat sit amet
metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit
lit. Fusce tempor arcu ac urna. Fusce congue eleifend mi. Pellentesque metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit amet, nulla. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean condimentum, odio quis pharetra dignissim, diam nisl dignissim diam, eu interdum magna erat sit amet felis.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit consectetuer adipiscing
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing?
elit. Fusce tempor arcu ac urna. Fusce congue eleifend mi. Pellentesque metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit amet, nulla. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean condimentum, odio quis pharetra dignissim, diam nisl dignissim diam, eu interdum magna erat sit amet felis.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Fusce tempor arcu ac urna. Fusce congue eleifend mi. Pellentesque metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit amet, nulla. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Aenean condimentum, odio quis pharetra dignissim, diam nisl dgnissim diam, eu interdum magna erat sit amet felis. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Fusce
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Fusce tempor arcu ac urna. Fusce congue eleifend mi. Pellentesque metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit amet, nulla. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Screaming in the Celluloid Jungle copyright 1997 no animals were harmed in the making
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Fusce tempor arcu ac urna. Fusce congue eleifend mi. Pellentesque metus sem, elementum eu, rhoncus sed, gravida sit amet, nulla. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean condimentum, odio quis pharetra dignissim, diam nisl dignissim diam, eu interdum magna erat sit amet felis. Etiam non felis at urna tempus luctus. In ullamcorper nisl congue elit. In convallis nibh vitae justo. Quisque ac lectus vitae sem consequat sagittis. Donec turpis nisi, feugiat sollicitudin, fermentum vitae, volutpat sed, ligula.
