Introduce Yourself : Hello by Susan Schweitzer

Yes, Susan. All you said above is so true. I welcome you and I wish you all the best with our writing. I also wish you the best with your writing and creativity.

Susan, welcome and do your best.

Welcome Susan. There are many supportive creatives on this site.

As one writer to another, welcome to the network, Susan. We have one talented, intelligent and vocal screenwriting community on this site. Be sure to check out the Screenwriting section of the Lounge. Always diverse and spirited conversations happening. Great to have you in the mix!

Welcome Susan. There is great support here for everyone, but it seems especially for us writers. I'm sure you'll find the same.

From one newbie to another: welcome :)

Like the Hemingway quote. Be happy to talk writing with you anytime. Give you a break from the isolation.

A classical quote. After 17 years plugging away at learning the craft of writing, I've finally found a voice. Just as I accomplished that, I got distracted by a course gifted to me in screenwriting. I'm 2/3 through it and it's a massive undertaking. All screenwriters have my respect and deserve a heroic place in film making. I just want to join the club, but I think I'll need others to bounce ideas around with. (yes, bad grammar). Don't hate me.

I'm not a screenwriter, but an author. Still, a writer is a writer! Happy to connect with you. :)

I'll be ready to share work as soon as I complete this course in screenwriting. It's reasonably basic to I'm assuming most people will be a bit advanced for me. I"ll try my best to keep up. Sometimes I do have an idea to contribute.Thank you for sharing your space, Susan, and welcome!

Hi and welcome. This is the place to be for like minded people. Fun quote, I think there should be more remakes of films by authors like Hemingway and Steinbeck.

Absolutely, Debbie.

Welcome. You'll like it here.

Welcome to the community, Susan. Hope you enjoy it and make many new acquaintances. Glad to have you aboard.

Welcome, Susan! You are defintely in the right place. Feel free to hit me up if you ever have any questions about craft, or the site.

Welcome Susan. You're going to love it here.

Thanks to all of you who have extended a warm "welcome"! I feel a bit overwhelmed with all of the activity that Stage32 generates. :-) I try to find time to write (Focus!!!) in my spare time (really difficult!! :-) while working a full-time professional job. But at least I'm not stressing about paying the bills, right Just keeping up with Stage32 seems to a PT job in and of itself! :-) Again, thanks for the welcomes and I do hope to connect with you at some point. I'm not sure if I mentioned my level of writing & where I'm at: I've completed a full-length feature, a sit com (placed in a few contests) and a short... I've LOTS of ideas that are at various stages of development. I am mostly dramedy, rom com (or is rom com dead?), drama. I have one really good idea for a young adult dystopia... It would be great to get together on a call with other people at the same level of writing skill. All I can say is that I know I have good, marketable ideas, I know that I can write a decent script, but that's where it ends.... I'm finding it hard to get validation to continue on with anything when I work in a field completely remote from writing. I often feel like my work and routine life have creatively lobotomized me... And, yet, there is hope... there is light. :-) Still finding it hard to hold onto the "dream" of making it. Whatever that means. I envy others who are knee-deep into the industry while I'm at least still a step or two... okay, many more steps removed... but still persevering. Okay, this is getting to be a long post!! And, I realize that it really comes down to my relationship with "CREATIVITY" itself... about getting into IT, committing to IT (myself and what I value and believe in) and going for it... regardless of the outcome. I'm really into understanding the higher meaning of creativity and how society does not value it... how we have become like trail horses or so they'd like us to become... I will stop now. Anyone else on thoughts about creativity? :-)( Existentially yours, Susan

Thanks for the connection! New on here as well so it is appreciated.

Welcome

I was just private messaged by someone informing me that my above post was not easy for them to read. The person did not offer nor engage in any thoughtful dialogue on the content of what I wrote. However, they felt it necessary to provide an unsolicited critique... that the paragraphs of my post were too bulky and difficult to read. Made my day.

Society most certainly does not value us. All the more reason to show them that they should. Discipline is a problem when writing is so demanding it takes everything out of you to write one page. If you don't mind, could you noodge me every day to work on my revision? I'll noodge you if you want. Thanks.

Thanks, Wendy! Yours is the type of encouragement and comradery that I appreciate. Thank you. :-) And, of course, I can try to noodge a little.

Re the nasty critiquer: Srcew 'em. That's not what we're here for. It's about support and being a positive community. Contact Stage 32 and report this knucklehead. If you want, I'll have some of my 6'6", 300 lb. sailor buddies pay this inconsiderate person a visit. ;)

I didn't discern any ill-will from this other person. Perhaps they felt they were being "helpful"? Not sure. But to not offer any type of discourse and to be offered only a criticism is a total turn-off to me. I provide enough criticism to myself. Thank you! Hey, thanks for the offer though! 'Never know when one might be in need of a 300 lb. sailor. What's your genre, Wendy? Are you screenwriter?

Welcome to Stage 32. I'm not here much myself and I'm looking to meet fellow screenwriters for possible collabos. You come to the right place!

Welcome.

Hello Susan. Welcome. What do you write? I'm a self-published writer with seven novel since 2009. Trying to turn the corner to screenwriting.

Welcome enjoy the people so many wonderful souls on here

Hi Susan, I'm a new kid too.

Welcome to the family Susan! Hang in there and never lose sight of that dream. I am an international bestselling author now transitioning to screenwriting and filmmaking. I feel as though I've started a new school and I love it. It's scary yet exhilarating at the same time. I left the comfort of my big title job back in 2008 to follow my heart and my creative dreams. It hasn't been easy. After losing everything in 2011 I was faced with the decision of giving up or starting over. I figured as an artist (which is what I consider myself), I had a blank canvas in which to create the life of my dreams. I moved to LA in 2013 and have never looked back. Living the dream and loving every moment. Please let me know how I may support you in any way. www.CaliGilbert.com

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Welcome to our community Susan, Happy to make your acquaintance and I wish you the very best!!

Welcome! I'm new too. Just learning the ropes. I look forward to connecting with more filmmakers and like-minded individuals.

You're in the right place. my name is Mark and I'm here to reinvent myself. Welcome aboard.

Welcome to this cool Stage32, Susan! Funnily, I'm a Swiss and you are (Dr) Schweitzer! Be blessed in your writing.

Hi! i like your post. I love writing. I am spanish. i hope we can conect and share our work.....

Thanks for all of you who have extended a nice welcome! I'm always AMAZES mw at how many beautiful and creative souls there are in the world! There is more good and creativity in the world than the evening news would have us believe! The best to all of you in your endeavors... Don't give up! That's why we're here (on Earth!) not on Stage32. Well, maybe we're here on Stage32 for the same reason. We have to support each other. And accept a good word from each other.

Hi thank's

Susan, I have one novel out, a sword and sorcery swashbuckler, and am currently marketing two screenplays, one based on the novel, the other a WWII drama. Got some poetry published and won a few prizes, including one for a "Bad Hemingway" piece I'm rather proud of. But to pay the bills, I sail as a deckhand on cargo ships to China and other places. Got chased by pirates once but they didn't catch us. Not as romantic as it sounds, though.

Welcome! There are also meetup groups for writers that you might enjoy. You can check on here and meetup.com has some Philly ones. Rom Com is definitely not dead, in my opinion. Not that I'm a screenwriter, but I think it's too strong of a genre, and one of my favorites, I might add!

Thank you, Shannon! I will check out those groups. Good to know you like rom com still! I do, too. Maybe it's not dead, but just evolving. One could hope. It seems like the last 5-10 years there have been a lot of mixed genres, Action/Rom Com, etc... Thank you, again for your encouragement!

No problem! Have you seen The Giant Mechanical Man? It's a rom com I really enjoyed, and recommend. Jenna Fischer (played Pam in The Office) is in it. Yeah, there are definitely a lot of mixed genre movies. I can understand how they might draw in more people, but at the same time, sometimes it's nice to have a simpler storyline.