#aspiring screenwriter

[neptuenery]

life goals:

be jewish ✅ 

win an oscar for best screenplay ❌

get better at table tennis❌

become a communist spy❌

[femmeboyfatale13]

My current top 12 favorite films:

[vxmorpheus]

I don’t even remember if I made a post last night but.... Chapter 22 is uploaded! I hope you enjoy it!

Interested in reading A Bright Life? Read it here - please be aware of sensitive subjects, tags, and note warnings, this story has mature themes and such

[the-scar-factory]

How to Write When You’re Scared to Write, a novel by me: Someone who is terrified of writing.

I always read advice to beginners from professionals and they make it sound so goddamn easy: “Just do it!” “Start now!” “Just write a bunch/film a bunch” - It’s great advice and we should all follow it, but it’s more than that. Starting shit is scary as fuck y’all. 

So here’s my advice as a beginner to beginners: 

Keep a little notebook with you and write down every idea. Every. Single. One. You think you’re gonna remember them - “This is such a fantastic idea, it’ll stay in my brain, I don’t need to write it down.” WRONG. Write that shit in your little notebook because before you know it you’ll start thinking about what you want for dinner and it’ll be gone forever. I favor the little 3 pack Moleskine notebooks because they fit into my back pocket. 

Alternatively: Get a voice recorder. And get used to looking like a weirdo when you talk in it. I drive a lot for work, so I can’t always pause to write down an idea. THIS one is only $40 for a ton of memory. Also, the little buttons are nice so you’re not fumbling with the voice recorder app on your phone while you’re driving. 

Now for the fun part- 

Writing exercises. Just beginning to write your own shit is scary as fuck. You have to make up characters and plotlines, witty dialogue... Incredibly rewarding, but scary. Some more good advice I’ve heard is to “Just write a sentence. You don’t even have to keep it in the story, you can edit it out later. Just write a sentence.”

However, sometimes you gotta warm up your creative juices. Just get all them juices nice and warm. Ew. And it’s easier to do this with a throwaway story, or some creative exercise that doesn’t require you to create characters or plotlines. This is the reason I primarily write fanfiction. It’s nice to just WRITE and use characters who are already developed. 

One of my favorites is- If you’re warming up to write a screenplay, pick a scene in a book you love, or even some random book off the shelf, and write it in screenplay format. Not word for word, that doesn’t count. Imagine the scene and write how you see it. How the audience would see it. I’ll attach an example. 

On the other hand if you’re writing a novel, pick a scene from a movie or TV show and write that in novel format. Pick up on the subtext, what the characters might be thinking, decide whose point of view it is, how do those characters feel? Describe this visual scene in your own words. If you wanna take it farther, you can unpack the sentences. How?  

These are good ways to get into the writing mood without having to stress out too much. And now you’re warmed up and all ready to write your own shit. 

Okay that’s all I have for now. Time for me to go write some throwaway sentences. 

In the meanwhile, listen to this episode of Scripnotes https://johnaugust.com/2017/getting-stuff-written And then go and listen to ALL the episodes of Scriptnotes because they’re fantastic. And go look up John August on Youtube. 

My novel to screenplay exercise example under the cut. It’s a scene from Tithe by Holly Black that I like a lot. I didn’t edit it or do much besides write what I saw in my head. 

[vxmorpheus]

Your bio says you’re writing 2 fanfics :0 Which is the other one aside from ABL?

Oop, i need to update that! Im working on 3 right now! One is an undertale fic which is a mage!reader x WD Gaster! And the other is another SCP fanfic which is a scp!reader x Dr Alto Clef! 😏 Names for both have already been decided, i particularly love the name for the Dr. Clef fic! Which... will remain a secret... for now...

If you, or anyone else, have any more questions, feel free to ask! I love talking about stuff though i ramble a lot!

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