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Being self employed gives you the flexibility to adjust to other life style demands, but it's hard to maintain balance with an unstable routine.
When i created this channel, i almost opted to make it a self employed discussion channel, partly because one doesn't exist yet on farcaster, and partly because it's such a huge element if what i do.
I'd like to make a longer post on this and also try to encourage discussion about being self employed, in whatever field, within this channel if possible.
When i created this channel, i almost opted to make it a self employed discussion channel, partly because one doesn't exist yet on farcaster, and partly because it's such a huge element if what i do.
I'd like to make a longer post on this and also try to encourage discussion about being self employed, in whatever field, within this channel if possible.
Very little done today but that's okay. Little by little it'll get done.
Killed off a character. I fucking love doing that.
This is just a reminder that you shouldn't feel guilty for taking a break from working. Whatever working means to you in this context, don't feel like you need to be doing it 24/7 to feel valuable.
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Finding an audience is crucial for success as a writer, either traditionally published or otherwise.
Your content will dictate the size of the audience, which will in turn dictate the size of your income.
Your content will dictate the size of the audience, which will in turn dictate the size of your income.
I'm wondering whether this already exists, or will exist soon.
AI that allows for a written scene input, that spits out a storyboard or a video sequence to allow for experimentation of what scene works best next.
The natural progression of this is a suggestion by the machine of what would be best to come next, based on your overall story input.
I wonder whether, eventually, the evolution of this will be
scene by scene
treatment
synopsis
logline
So a whole film can be created with just a couple of sentences.
A few questions for clarification.
Reducing writing itself to nothing more than a suggestion.
Taking away the pain of creation.
You know what you want to achieve.
The AI does the hard work for you.
Filling
In
The
Gaps.
AI that allows for a written scene input, that spits out a storyboard or a video sequence to allow for experimentation of what scene works best next.
The natural progression of this is a suggestion by the machine of what would be best to come next, based on your overall story input.
I wonder whether, eventually, the evolution of this will be
scene by scene
treatment
synopsis
logline
So a whole film can be created with just a couple of sentences.
A few questions for clarification.
Reducing writing itself to nothing more than a suggestion.
Taking away the pain of creation.
You know what you want to achieve.
The AI does the hard work for you.
Filling
In
The
Gaps.
Maybe not stagnant but samey but i think that has to do with established rules of structure and expectation within the different disciplines. I guess it all depends on the specific discipline too. There is definitely not an equality of opportunity across economic divides, but that doesn't mean that the richer you are the less you have to say. I'm not sure that creativity comes from external struggle more than internal, or even that imagination is a blessing of those with more free time than others, or than those that have the opportunity to experience a wider range of things are naturally in a better place to comment on them. Everyone has something of value to say, regardless of their background.
There isn't an audiobook channel so I'm going to try to integrate it into this channel as best as possible. The audiobook world doesn't fit quite so well into screenwriting, but it does fit into writing in general and it's something I encourage every self employed writer to consider as an additional outlet for their work.
A lot of producers will work on your project for free in exchange for a percentage of royalties, or you can pay them for their work in exchange for an exclusive royalties deal if you prefer.
Audiobooks not only sell well, it's also really awesome listening to someone else read the material that you've written.
A lot of producers will work on your project for free in exchange for a percentage of royalties, or you can pay them for their work in exchange for an exclusive royalties deal if you prefer.
Audiobooks not only sell well, it's also really awesome listening to someone else read the material that you've written.
What projects are you all working on?
I'm watching Bridgerton at the moment and I'm enjoying it. Romance can be a really fun genre to write, and I particularly enjoy the push pull dance play of the enemies to lovers trope, which seems to have taken the place in season 2 of the fake marriage trope they explored in season 1.
In romance in general, (and this works with the arcs of your protagonist and antagonist in other genres too) the key is to push your would be lovers together as much as you pull them apart, until they move from one end of the spectrum (enemies) to the other (lovers). This must be done through action, and the journey that they take to do so fun and believable for the audience to watch/read.
Romance works best when they either can't be together for whatever reason (there are many subgenres possible here), or think they don't want to be together (but actually realise that they do), or you somehow manage to combine the two.
In romance in general, (and this works with the arcs of your protagonist and antagonist in other genres too) the key is to push your would be lovers together as much as you pull them apart, until they move from one end of the spectrum (enemies) to the other (lovers). This must be done through action, and the journey that they take to do so fun and believable for the audience to watch/read.
Romance works best when they either can't be together for whatever reason (there are many subgenres possible here), or think they don't want to be together (but actually realise that they do), or you somehow manage to combine the two.
SpaceX argues that these failures are also part of its development plan - to launch early in the expectation of failure so that it can collect as much data as possible and develop its systems quicker than its rivals. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe7exjy1go
I'm posting this in this forum for two reasons that are relevant to screenwriting.
1. Failures are a crucial part of success. With writing, especially commercial writing, which screenwriting essentially is always, you will fail many times, and many more times than you succeed. Set yourself up for that by being prepared to use failure as a learning exercise.
2. To fail, to succeed, to learn anything at all, you must be prepared to share your work. Don't be precious over your material, especially your screenwriting material which is one part, albeit the first page, of a multiple stage multi person project. You need to be prepared to let people analyse it, criticise it, and chew it up and spit it out. Defend it, learn from what they say, let their
I'm posting this in this forum for two reasons that are relevant to screenwriting.
1. Failures are a crucial part of success. With writing, especially commercial writing, which screenwriting essentially is always, you will fail many times, and many more times than you succeed. Set yourself up for that by being prepared to use failure as a learning exercise.
2. To fail, to succeed, to learn anything at all, you must be prepared to share your work. Don't be precious over your material, especially your screenwriting material which is one part, albeit the first page, of a multiple stage multi person project. You need to be prepared to let people analyse it, criticise it, and chew it up and spit it out. Defend it, learn from what they say, let their
Although not a Pixar film, writing about The Wild Robot has reminded me of Pixar's 22 rules for storytelling, which are a fantastic addition to any writers research material. Here they are in all their glory.
Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist.
1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
2. You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.
3. Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.
4. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist.
1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
2. You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.
3. Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.
4. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
Took the kids to see The Wild Robot the other day and we absolutely loved it. This is a good example of textbook hero journey goal orientated story telling, full of small problems the protagonist needs to overcome to eventually solve the larger objectives that form her character arc and transition. Those objectives are also cleverly built into the narrative as Roz is programmed to look for and solve missions. I'm always impressed when a writer takes me somewhere that makes me think "how are they getting out of this now, there's no way out of this", and then delivers the only solution to the problem, which I haven't foreseen, but is absolutely perfect. This film builds to those big moments spectacularly well and does so without relying on well worn convention, typical genre tropes, or by being contrived. In this context that means doing something that happens to benefit the narrative by sheer luck. The message the film contains is heartfelt and important, and I like the bigger questions they ask about purpose,
Going through a google drive full of old story ideas, with more than I'd remembered unfinished, some after thousands of words written, makes me feel a bit better about this stumbling block I seem to be going through right now.
People say it all the time, but there's a lot of truth in the fact that progress isn't linear.
People say it all the time, but there's a lot of truth in the fact that progress isn't linear.
It's raining, which I love, and makes me think of films or film scenes in which rain has been used really effectively.
The first that comes to mind is blade runner, which I watched again relatively recently, and didn't enjoy as much as I thought I would, in which it seems to be raining constantly. The time to die monologue sticks out, but also the scene when he's eating in the street stall.
The second is the scene in back to the future 2, when Marty receives the letter from Doc. I've watched the Back to the Future trilogy of films a lot and this scene has always stood out to be because of the incessant rain.
Se7en is another film in which it seems to be raining non stop. I haven't seen it for a long time but I remember when they are chasing Kevin Spacey's character from his apartment and eventually lose him and the rain just won't let up.
Can you think of any other films, or film scenes, that make good use of rain?
The first that comes to mind is blade runner, which I watched again relatively recently, and didn't enjoy as much as I thought I would, in which it seems to be raining constantly. The time to die monologue sticks out, but also the scene when he's eating in the street stall.
The second is the scene in back to the future 2, when Marty receives the letter from Doc. I've watched the Back to the Future trilogy of films a lot and this scene has always stood out to be because of the incessant rain.
Se7en is another film in which it seems to be raining non stop. I haven't seen it for a long time but I remember when they are chasing Kevin Spacey's character from his apartment and eventually lose him and the rain just won't let up.
Can you think of any other films, or film scenes, that make good use of rain?
Sketched out the breakdown of another idea that's been tempting me away from my current WIP, which should be an easier project to navigate as it's loosely based on real experience, and then wrote another couple of hundred words on the fiction version of the WIP which I'm hoping will both encourage me back into getting words on the page more.fluidly and allow me to shift back to the screenplay format when ready. For the first time ever in my writing career I seem to be writing two separate versions of the same story concurrently.
Just want to give a shout-out to https://www.writerduet.com/ the screenwriting software I've been using recently, because it's absolutely fantastic.
Free option allows you three projects maximum, while the paid option doesn't have a project limit.
Free option allows you three projects maximum, while the paid option doesn't have a project limit.
This channel is a discussion forum for everything related to screenwriting and playwriting, and the creative writing process in general.
It is meant to be somewhere screenwriters, playwriters and creative writers of any discipline can come to talk about their work, ask questions about structure, format, different writing approaches, and correct current terminology, network with other writers, talk about opportunities, competitions, the creative writing process in general, and everything else related to the writing industry, both professional and amateur alike.
This is also a place where produced TV and Film screenplays, and theatre can be discussed at length.
This channel will always be free to join and cast in. I only ask that you be respectful and keep conversations appropriate.
In short, if it's about writing, that's great. If it's about screenwriting or playwriting, that's even better!
It is meant to be somewhere screenwriters, playwriters and creative writers of any discipline can come to talk about their work, ask questions about structure, format, different writing approaches, and correct current terminology, network with other writers, talk about opportunities, competitions, the creative writing process in general, and everything else related to the writing industry, both professional and amateur alike.
This is also a place where produced TV and Film screenplays, and theatre can be discussed at length.
This channel will always be free to join and cast in. I only ask that you be respectful and keep conversations appropriate.
In short, if it's about writing, that's great. If it's about screenwriting or playwriting, that's even better!