Trying to answer the unanswerable.

[lexx9]

I like screenwriting more than anything. It’s complicated though as I feel every one in LA has a written a script and is just waiting for their big break. To be honest, I’ve written a few that I felt were almost there.....Of course the operative word is "almost". Writing a story that will leave a mark on your audience is not exactly a walk in the park.

[Devastator]

Write stories you like or would like to see. Fuck everyone else. If you write them well they will remember the movie, book, or even a video game. What I'm saying is; don't write for an audience in general. Be specific in the genre and ask yourself what you want to convey with the story.

[Shadow]

Write stories you like or would like to see. Fuck everyone else. If you write them well they will remember the movie, book, or even a video game. What I'm saying is; don't write for an audience in general. Be specific in the genre and ask yourself what you want to convey with the story. I second that.

[IMT Guyver]

I second that.

Just write about what you like.

I have been trying to write a script for a film i have been trying to making over ten years now.

[xXRavenXx]

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I wouldn't write to try to leave a mark on anyone (might hurt). If you have passion about the subject matter, then you'll entertain folks. If someone tells you or assigns you to write about something, oh, say, linoleum floors, and you are like, "ack, I can't write about that." Stop. Go research. You'd be amazed at what comes out of plopping down, putting the music on, and reading about a subject matter. Depending on the confines given, you could come up with a story about the lives that take place on a particular linoleum floor -- the husband and wife who painstakingly shopped for just the right floor, then raised a family who tracked over the floor, the heartache, the despair, the laughter. OR, given a sci-fi twist, the linoleum floor is made up from a meteor rock, and there are alien particles that live there. Once the flooring is laid, the aliens start coming out and havoc ensues in homes across suburbia; OR an action sty about a guy who sells linoleum floors for a living and has the bad fortune of selling to a hit man/mob boss/spy and is dragged into the world of ___________.

Feel me on this? You can make the script you've written worthy. Look at it again. Research it some more. Pull it apart, keep what's good, and pitch what wasn't working. Get input from others. They might piss you off, but you'd be amazed at what comes out of that fire -- passion. (Got to have it.)

As to what sells, just keep writing and throwing it up against the wall and eventually, something will stick.

DING DING DING....we have a winner.

Now that spring is here, I am going to start the process of sitting outside in the grass with my laptop and listening to music from the late 60's. I already know where I wanna take it... but who knows what detours might arise.

So on that note. Know what you want in a story, but if for some reason you have a bright idea... write it in. Go back and tweak the previous stuff to make it fit. First drafts are easy. It's the perfection that is a pain in the ass. Juno took 3 months. Why? Because Diablo was passionate.

[Z28 Autobot]

Busted...

[xXRavenXx]

Busted...

Ohhh yea. Still fun to poke and prod though :D

[Z28 Autobot]

Ohh I agree..

And did you know I am starting an alternate reality film school in the Savage Land in the Antartic. But you need a passing grade at the Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters to get into the class down south. Since they have acess to the place via the Blackbird. ;)
But any mutant worth his salt would know that being an F-Man is not as good as being an X-Man..so I guess I should go recruit maybe the Teen Titans?

[TheMovieWhore]

Write stories you like or would like to see. Fuck everyone else. If you write them well they will remember the movie, book, or even a video game. What I'm saying is; don't write for an audience in general. Be specific in the genre and ask yourself what you want to convey with the story.


I could not have put it better myself. Some of the best movie were written by people who wrote about what they know. I myself could not write a script to save my life but I have been known to punch some stuff up. Find some one you trust that has the ability to take good and tweak it a little to make it great. We all need a little help from time to time.