Screenwriting : Jake Johnson, who found a rusty gun & a bone, wrote a screenplay based on it. Have you based a script on an odd personal experience? by LindaAnn Loschiavo
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For sure...it sounds like fun!!!
Many many times.
My first screenplay KAMELEON was based on my experiences as the emcee of an open-mike night series in 1984 San Francisco ( I made up the part about the serial killer). My third one, BRAVE EARS, grew out of my experience applying for a Low-Power FM station license during a once-in-a-generation window during which the FCC took applications for new stations (though I project myself into the character of an 18-year-old-girl). That one also takes scenes from my experience as a pirate radio DJ. And I put my heroine through all the changes I went through when she unexpectedly has to move - like I had to - from San Francisco to tiny Geyserville, CA.
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Nice share, Linda. By the way...your kitty ZHENG T'AI....looking at that cat's eyes....those are the cutest/deepest/most expressive type of cat eyes. I know cat eyes like that. That cat would own me and manipulate the shit out of me! God, I hate cats! Heh-heh.
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Heading back to grade school, I've had a bad habit of attracting unavailable women. I turned that into my first screenplay The Other Guy.
Great share, Linda.
Yeah, but usually in a parallel sense. Not so much in screen but television. Sometimes my experiences are too odd, even for screen or television. LOL!
I just had to find the cat photos after Bills comment. All three could "humble" a cat lover.
Yes, though it wasn't as lurid/exciting as what Mr. Johnson experienced! I once had an conversation with someone who thought I had attended a school other from my own. It proved to be the kernel of an idea for a script I co-wrote, with a buddy of mine. (-:
My experiences in the extreme heavy metal music community helped inspire a screenplay that changed my screenwriting luck, and informed a few of my other scripts as well. Stranger than fiction, as they say - and in heavy metal that couldn't be more true.
Not so much odd, but yes personal experiences and I wrote a supernatural based on a story / dream / premonition, my grandma told me when I was nine. I'm always listening, because even friends can provide you with so much story, that we as writers have stretch and twist to make it cinematic.
I was a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network. That's how I started writing grounded sci fi. I also write horror - most from personal experiences living in an old country and later as a paranormal investigator.