My script: all typed :-)
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beccaelizabethProperly formatted (or at least as close to it as I can get without looking stuff up again) I have written 58 pages. Not bad for an episode.
Quite a lot of those pages are just people standing around arguing. Sometimes about the same things repeatedly. I need to work on that.
... it's possible it's all very boring. More stuff happened in another version I gave up on and started over. I'm tempted to add a random fight scene or something. Well, semi random, it's not like there's a shortage of reasons. But it couldn't be much of a fight without really changing my characters. Boo.
So, the job is to make it the best standing around arguing possible.
... *sigh* ...
I will have another look at it tomorrow, but I am not sure I'm even finding all the cut and paste errors where the same paragraph is in there twice. I've been staring at it too long.
Need beta readers
Anyone? Or any suggestions where to ask?
Original fic, all new characters, space dystopia on a spaceship in space.
I intend to send it to the BBC writers room. Before college starts again. Which is quite soon, given my apparent writing speed.
... my theory is there is no way that a properly spelled script in English with grammar and characters and a beginning middle and end can be the worst thing they've seen all year.
I do need to make sure the first ten pages are sparkly and make people want to read the rest. I worry a bit because I only introduce a couple of characters at a time so it takes a while to get rolling. But I state the problem pretty quickly.
I've never been able to figure out if my work is A Bit Rubbish or Very Rubbish. Usually with essays I think Very, and then I get a first. It makes it a bit difficult to make things better, since I don't know when they are.
But my script has several women in it talking to each other, and lots of colors of people.
and then at the end a big speech about racism. I'm a bit worried about that speech. I think it's really clunky and annoying. I cannot make important things sound clunky and annoying. Well, clearly I can, but it is important not to.
... I think I want to go back to stories with boys kissing. Simple! With porn!
... writing porn is unlikely to get me a job writing Doctor Who. Probably.
My first version of the script showed everything that this version only has people arguing about. That's a problem. Showing is better. But even if I showed it all the characters would still have to get in arguments with each other about it.
... the more I think, the more I want to slam this all back to the drawing board for restructuring and possibly starting again. Which would be bad. Because I can't do that every single time I finish a draft.
I am going to have to stop thinking about my script again. Or I'll end up dicing it or something.
I shall watch TV and read and sleep and stuff instead.
Quite a lot of those pages are just people standing around arguing. Sometimes about the same things repeatedly. I need to work on that.
... it's possible it's all very boring. More stuff happened in another version I gave up on and started over. I'm tempted to add a random fight scene or something. Well, semi random, it's not like there's a shortage of reasons. But it couldn't be much of a fight without really changing my characters. Boo.
So, the job is to make it the best standing around arguing possible.
... *sigh* ...
I will have another look at it tomorrow, but I am not sure I'm even finding all the cut and paste errors where the same paragraph is in there twice. I've been staring at it too long.
Need beta readers
Anyone? Or any suggestions where to ask?
Original fic, all new characters, space dystopia on a spaceship in space.
I intend to send it to the BBC writers room. Before college starts again. Which is quite soon, given my apparent writing speed.
... my theory is there is no way that a properly spelled script in English with grammar and characters and a beginning middle and end can be the worst thing they've seen all year.
I do need to make sure the first ten pages are sparkly and make people want to read the rest. I worry a bit because I only introduce a couple of characters at a time so it takes a while to get rolling. But I state the problem pretty quickly.
I've never been able to figure out if my work is A Bit Rubbish or Very Rubbish. Usually with essays I think Very, and then I get a first. It makes it a bit difficult to make things better, since I don't know when they are.
But my script has several women in it talking to each other, and lots of colors of people.
and then at the end a big speech about racism. I'm a bit worried about that speech. I think it's really clunky and annoying. I cannot make important things sound clunky and annoying. Well, clearly I can, but it is important not to.
... I think I want to go back to stories with boys kissing. Simple! With porn!
... writing porn is unlikely to get me a job writing Doctor Who. Probably.
My first version of the script showed everything that this version only has people arguing about. That's a problem. Showing is better. But even if I showed it all the characters would still have to get in arguments with each other about it.
... the more I think, the more I want to slam this all back to the drawing board for restructuring and possibly starting again. Which would be bad. Because I can't do that every single time I finish a draft.
I am going to have to stop thinking about my script again. Or I'll end up dicing it or something.
I shall watch TV and read and sleep and stuff instead.
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