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I’m making good progress on my screenplay! I started two days ago and I’m already 50 pages in (I have a scene by scene outline that helps me)! It got me thinking: how many pages should I be writing per day, especially if I have a full time job? I don’t want to overdo it, but I also don’t...
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Thrilled and grateful to have my 1-hour Drama Pilot THE SENSUALIST honored as a Semifinalist in the 1st Annual Period Piece Screenwriting Contest. Thanks for the recognition, Stage 32, and congratulations to all the Semifinalists!! Here's a slide from the series bible for the show. THE SENSUALIST wa...
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Congratulations and looks very promising.
Congratulations on "The Sensualist" being a Semifinalist, Suzanne Griffin!
Congratulations Suzanne Griffin great news!
I’ll start. let’s talk about the elephant in the room.
absolutely nuts! Christopher Phillips
not gonna lie David Michael Kelly this is cringy
and I literally LOL’d Maurice Vaughan
Haha Fran Harris. Whenever I hear "I don’t even know who you are anymore" in a movie or show, I think, "There it goes." I try hard to avoid putting cliche dialogue in my scripts. Or I'll at least put...
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Cliche as a form of comedy rocks but as a dramatic tool it is very, very risky to use UNLESS for a comedic break in tension to prepare for a rising action.
I am about to sign up to one if the A.I. writing assistant platforms (like scribbler)
Why?...you ask.
I currently have 4 books/screenplays all framed out and some part written.
But, i seem "stuck" to actually work on them and finish.
So my thinking was let the A.I. take what i have and seem what it com...
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Great post, CJ Walley. This line: "We constantly go on about the threat of AI in terms of its capability, but we don't seem to want to talk about how weak a writer must be feeling should they turn to...
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I just want to point out that the AI "learns" by dissecting whatever you feed to it and using its component pieces to feed to its own algorithm and thereby other writers. Essentially it strips your wo...
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Wow. Those comments from CJ Walley, RB and Anna Marton Henry are spot-on and show deep insight and integrity. My respect for Stage 32 as an organization has expanded greatly.
Update:
I did my first "try" at feeding the beast a chapter of my "framework" of one my books.
Being a novice and not adept at giving the "proper" prompts. I was "meza mez" about what it produced. I was...
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FYI...
To all those concerned about AI replacing us.
You are correct...
But...
We all drive cars now
(not too many ride horses...and i have horses)
We all use smartphones and computers.
(Other than Christ...
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Super excited to share that my feature script STRAYS, GAYS & HOLIDAYS was selected as a finalist in Stage32's 1st Annual Holiday Movies Screenwriting Competition! I loved writing this one and I am super honored to be recognized. Congrats to all of the other finalists!
Congrats!
Bravo, Ashley! Congrats to you :) Best of luck to you.
Congratulations on winning!
Best wishes,
Bruce Sloman
Just heard the result! You won! Congratulations, Ashley Bower!
Congratulations on winning the competition, Ashley Bower! Great news for the weekend!
Thanks to Amanda and Richard sending me a hand to reactivate another Stage 32 account after my tower went to the computer cemetery, I can say I'm beginning to readjust my presence here. Thank God, I have all my screenplays in the repair shop's file so everything isn't at a lost. The only thing I nee...
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Welcome back. I second the call for backing up your work having lost more than a few scripts for similar reasons over the years. Glad you recovered most of it.
Welcome back! Always good to keep a copy of your fdx and pdf script files in a cloud drive like Dropbox or Gdrive, in case of emergencies. I lost one of my scripts years ago because I spilled water on...
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Welcome back, Claude Gagne. Glad you're back on Stage 32 and you didn't lose all your files. I agree, back up your work. I make a backup file for every script. I also got into the habit of saving my w...
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Congratulations to the winners of our Holiday Contest, Ashley Bower, with her winning script STRAYS, GAYS, & HOLIDAYS!
And thank you to all the amazing writers that participated in this year's contest and made it the most competitive edition yet!
Check out all the placements here:
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Congratulations on winning, Ashley! :D
Congratulations!
Hey All! I was wondering post-WGA strike landscape, are there any major trends all Writers in TV and Film should be made aware of and start thinking of or adopting in their writing/story/pitching? Thanks!
Hey, Andy Yang. I keep hearing that companies are looking for procedural shows. Also, a lot of producers and directors are looking for micro-budget scripts and low-budget scripts. Mainly Contained scr...
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To Maurice’s point, yes the next wave is definitely AVOD which is conducive to broadcast / cable-style episodic content, so specs should hit act breaks hard and be a fresh take on marketable genres.
Check out article in new Harper's Magazine "The Life and Death of Hollywood: Film and television writers face an existential threat
" by Daniel Bessner - overview of how and why Hollywood has changed o...
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Hey all! Nice to 'meet' you. I am a generally kind and personable person, so I welcome networking.
Former Captain in the US Army in Air Defense Artillery and Military Intelligence -- and yes, I saw the script about 'Hey I'm a spy' - whose title made me laugh. Lots of good writers and people here on S...
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Role-playing games are the best! Tabletop RPG's are an AMAZING tool for any writer I think. Do you have a favorite?
Thank you for taking the time to reintroduce yourself to the community, L. Tom Deaver! Great to see you! =)
Hey Daniel, yes, I love history! For instance, I liked the original "Kingdom Come: Deliverance" as not perfect history but a very solid story that had loads of fun in it and was happy to see "Kingdom...
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Great to see you too, Ashley =) I hope your own work is going well?
It is, L. Tom Deaver, thank you for asking! =)
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That's awesome!! You write as much as you want. Sometimes the words just flow to page and you can do plenty. I have a fulltime job so I can only write a bit at a time. I just think about scenarios and writing at my job, and then translate it to page when I get a moment.
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Vincent, you're on FIRE!
Congratulations to you for firing off 50 pages in 48 hours...and here's wishing you tremendous success on your screenplay (and future works)!
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Agree with everyone here - just keep writing and et it flow as it does. The key is getting to the end so you can see the whole of what you’ve created and then start rewriting and polishing. way to go!!
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If I manage to do one page a year I am doing pretty good.
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I actually don't write every day. I write in bursts....I'll go months without writing then I will suddenly write like 5 screenplays in a month. The most pages I wrote in one day so far was 79 pages in...
Expand commentI actually don't write every day. I write in bursts....I'll go months without writing then I will suddenly write like 5 screenplays in a month. The most pages I wrote in one day so far was 79 pages in one day. But I write when I am inspired, do other fun things when I am not.