Screenwriting : What do you like to write? by Damion Willis

I write about myself. My experiences. My perceptions. My facets of personality. Ironically, as I am a somewhat limited subject in terms of stories and moods; sometimes I get bored writing. But, this does not stop me.

I tend to write about people that have realisation about themselves. This normally happens when death is an outcome.

In ‘Amy’ she realises that if she survives life for everyone she knows get worse. So she goes out in a death by cop scenario.

‘Love, Money, Bombs’ there is a 50/50 chance of wealth or death. He has let his wife down all through their marriage. He decides to open the box.

In a story I am writing now. There is a serial killer with multiple personality disorder. The personalities are planning to suicide to try and stop him.

I don’t have a stepping as much as I have a story type.

Anything where I can weave odd or different parallels.

Writers who execute that well I love.

All pro writers do this however execution in what the finished product conveys varies.

Directors that understand pinpoint pen point vision to big picture are cool too.

Characters - oddballs, head-cases, mundanes, bullies, victims, etc. Any characters that move story and provide conflict.

Damion, I'm drawn to comedy.

In fact, many (if not most) of my characters are musical people.

And I love to put those characters in actual physical settings (for example, "Pixie Dust" was about students at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities). If I'm working on a screenplay that takes place in the past, I sometimes build around something that really happened (the catalyst for "Jingle Belles," for instance, was the 2-3-1959 death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson).

Great question, Damion...and all the VERY BEST to you!