Inventions a writer really needs
Jan. 25th, 2010 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo today I made a whole perfectly good Doctor Who episode with 5 and Nyssa and it was awesome and brilliant and totally made sense and then I woke up.
*sulk*
Someone needs to invent the thing that writes down your story from your head instead of making you do all this typing stuff.
... editing would then become a really really necessary skill, and there'd be a lot more random porn, but that's not the point.
I woke up in a right grumpy because of that one. I got plenty of story parts but they don't be all in a row filling up pages making sense yet.
I looked at the scripts for Company of Friends, one of the examples suggested in the write-this, and length ranges between 30 and 47 pages. 30, 32, 44, 47. The 47 one has a lot of nearly blank pages though. So I need to make at least 30 pages.
You know how you're always sure you've got plenty of story until you go to actually write it down?
I dread that bit.
So I only need 500 words of pitch and 2 pages of script but I need some idea of what goes on the pages in case I haven't made up enough and need to put more middle in my beginning middle and end.
Somebody else is going to be much better at this that me. I can already tell.
*sulk*
Someone needs to invent the thing that writes down your story from your head instead of making you do all this typing stuff.
... editing would then become a really really necessary skill, and there'd be a lot more random porn, but that's not the point.
I woke up in a right grumpy because of that one. I got plenty of story parts but they don't be all in a row filling up pages making sense yet.
I looked at the scripts for Company of Friends, one of the examples suggested in the write-this, and length ranges between 30 and 47 pages. 30, 32, 44, 47. The 47 one has a lot of nearly blank pages though. So I need to make at least 30 pages.
You know how you're always sure you've got plenty of story until you go to actually write it down?
I dread that bit.
So I only need 500 words of pitch and 2 pages of script but I need some idea of what goes on the pages in case I haven't made up enough and need to put more middle in my beginning middle and end.
Somebody else is going to be much better at this that me. I can already tell.
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Date: 2010-01-25 08:20 pm (UTC)