Weird Writing Quirks
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- jamespoet
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hahaa...good old pen and paper. I had to jot something down the other day, and realized I really missed the feeling of holding a pen! It's been so long since I've had to write notes or write things down by hand.jamespoet wrote:For my short stories and my poems, virtually always have to start with a pen and a pad of paper. I have to physically write out the words of the first draft, make a feel for the words, etc. For screenplays I have to use Final Draft--the whole formatting thing that seems just as important as the words themselves--but for everything else there's MastCard. And a pen and paper.
Somehow, I can totally see how formatting is important--gives you the feel of a finished product.
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Screenplays are in a way like sonnets...you can be as creative with the story as you want, but there are technical perameters which must be met before you can label it a screenplay (or a sonnet, to complete the analogy). The formatting rules are there, in order to come up with a finished script where one pages of script roughly translates to one minute of screentime. So a 100 page script will equal to roughly a film lasting an hour and forty minutes. It's kind of a weird setup, but I enjoy the challange of it.npandit wrote:hahaa...good old pen and paper. I had to jot something down the other day, and realized I really missed the feeling of holding a pen! It's been so long since I've had to write notes or write things down by hand.
Somehow, I can totally see how formatting is important--gives you the feel of a finished product.
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I would love to see your screenplays play out on screen/in theater! Do you normally write for film/tv, or is it generally for stage?
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Maybe that's what it is about me when I get really motivated to write in the fall!Carla Hurst-Chandler wrote:I get nearly 75% of my writing done in the Winter. Too many distractions Spring through Fall. Imagine how prolific I could be if I lived in the Arctic
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A) A super duper important thing that I must write down immediately and my writing options are black pen or my own blood
or
B) In my black little notebook where I write all figments of story ideas, one liners, characters, or anything that I love but don't have enough of to start crafting a full story.
Another thing I do is that when I move from one line to the next and need to break a word, it CAN'T look like the fragment on the next line is its own word. So if I'm trying to write
Parent
it can't be pa-
rent
because then it looks like -rent is its own word and I can't have that. Also if I'm starting a new paragraph at least half the line or more must be full because otherwise that's wasting space.
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Anacoana wrote:I handwrite virtually everything, and only in blue pen. The only time black is acceptable is if it's
A) A super duper important thing that I must write down immediately and my writing options are black pen or my own blood
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The scary part is that I so "get" this.
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No, not really.
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LAUGHING!!!PashaRu wrote:When I write, all the stuffed animals in the house must be facing north.
No, not really.
(...because everyone KNOWS they must be facing south...silly)
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