I've got nothing |
Post Reply | Page <1 45678 10> |
Author | |||
stephenmatlock
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 10422 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Been there in every one of these contests. Usually the second round. The prompt is like...wha? Either it's too predictable or just too incomprehensible. I am tired of writing ghost stories. I don't like them, I don't read them, and I don't want to write them anymore. I never win with them. I just don't "do" the genre. So I feel ya here.
|
|||
Pithy sayings are for the apt. For a longer message, you need a condo.
|
|||
manifestlynot
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 02 Jan 2018 Status: Offline Points: 4480 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
If it’s helpful, one of my duties is data mining...? (No idea if that’s any better but it make take you in a new direction)
|
|||
Rhyming R1: Lionheart (Hist fic)
|
|||
Emfizz
NYC Midnight Regular Joined: 31 Jan 2017 Location: London, UK Status: Offline Points: 271 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
I did actually toy with that idea, but then felt that it wouldn't make a very compelling visual story (or rather that I couldn't make it a compelling one). It would definitely work as a short story though I reckon. That's great info though, I will definitely be hitting you up should I ever be writing about data mining as I know nothing about it!
|
|||
Vernacula
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 21 Jan 2016 Location: West Coast Status: Offline Points: 3729 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
If it counts for anything, I've loved much of your ghostliness! But I hear ya. I got caught in the ghost trap early on and finally broke out of it.
|
|||
musikriter
NYC Midnight Groupie Joined: 14 Jan 2019 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 105 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Not alone at all! My first time, too. I have written several stage plays and thought this would be easier (the fade in fade out makes transitions so much easier that set and costume changes for live theater). Wrong! I have a 10 page story, I think, but with formatting I can't get it below 18! I'm going to use it as an exercise for writing a full length screenplay. Brevity (as in this email) not my strongpoint! My genre was tough for me, too. Out of my comfort zone for sure.
|
|||
RCR12023ACOMPROMISEDEMISE
|
|||
steph9289
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 23 Jan 2016 Location: Brooklyn, NY Status: Offline Points: 8966 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
I've managed to catch the plague and have barely thought about my screenplay since Sunday... 😕
|
|||
#amrevising
|
|||
TMW2Judgementday
NYC Midnight Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2019 Location: Roswell, GA Status: Offline Points: 27 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Write your prompts on individual sheets of paper and then write every freaking word/phrase you can think of that has anything to do with each word. Then look at them at the same time and some stuff should come together. I write a 2 or 3 sentence idea down. Draft out an outline in a paragraph or so and then begin thinking about how many scenes it would take. Then you breakdown the scenes by number with 1 sentence descriptions and then create and flesh out characters. At that point you should start drafting a script. Don't write a word of dialogue until you know where your story begins and ends. This can all change I normally write 10+ drafts before I even like the script.
|
|||
-Matt West
|
|||
BarbaraFL
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Status: Offline Points: 3785 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Eek. I just realized it's due Saturday night (USA) and not Sunday night.
Good thing I have off tomorrow! Life issues nearly ruined me this week and I haven't picked up my script since last weekend...but it will get done.
|
|||
stephenmatlock
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 10422 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
This round's Screenplay. Current Short Story Comp ("Cold Truths"). Last year's Short Story comp that I set in old-timey Seattle. (Don't remember flash prompts from last year.) At least one flash fiction every round since 2015, which means somewhere around 50-75%.
|
|||
Pithy sayings are for the apt. For a longer message, you need a condo.
|
|||
stephenmatlock
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 10422 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
I'm actually fairly happy with my current one, although it isn't really a screenplay with lots of action. More of a "My Dinner with Andre" feel. The judges may ding me severely for that, but it's the story that I wanted to tell. The idea literally did come to me Saturday morning when I woke up, and I kicked out the first draft by noon. I've been tweaking it since then, getting some *excellent* feedback, and now it's a tight 11.75 pages. I'll probably give it one more thorough pass on Saturday morning, and then it's done. My 2nd round short story I had zero interest in, and would have just not submitted anything but a *very good friend* told me to get out of my slump, and I wrote something in 90 minutes ("Ice Capades"). Not my best work, but I got it out there. |
|||
Pithy sayings are for the apt. For a longer message, you need a condo.
|
|||
Post Reply | Page <1 45678 10> |
Tweet |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |