I have updated my [Loglines] page. I have revised loglines to short scripts on the page, and I have added loglines to longer works, too. In addition, I now have sample pages of the scripts available to read.
Take the time to check them out!
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Still reading McKee’s STORY and nodding and yessing over it.
Something I read last night made me think about the Writers Boot Camp course I offer online.
McKee states, “Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer’s labor goes into designing a story. Who are these characters? What do they want? Why do they want it? How do they go about getting it? What stops them? What are the consequences? Finding the answers to these grand questions and shaping them into story is our overwhelming creative task.
“Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.”
Those questions that McKee states are paramount to my WBC class. They are important to the development of a strong story, of a story with a developed character, a solid situation, and a plot that moves toward a satisfying, “real” ending.
I, like McKee, care about the STORY, and if you’re a real writer, someone who’s doing this for the love of writing and with the desire to better your craft, then you will care about the STORY, too.
And speaking of story, I wrote ten pages to my screenplay, Saying No to the Big O. Current page count: 44.
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I just learned that I’m a finalist in WILDsound’s one-page screenplay contest! I submitted the script BURDENS to them back in September.
My name and title are on their [page].
The WINNING 10 SCRIPTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED – November 12th – then those scripts will be read at WILDsound’s November Screenplay event. The WINNING SCRIPT out of that round (voted ONLINE) will then have their script made into a movie.
I’m very excited. In the last year and a half, I’ve written three scripts; the very first one made it to the quarterfinal round of a competition – the pilot for RUNNING FROM MISS RIGHT, a six-episode mini series I wrote.
I haven’t submitted the second script anywhere yet, but I plan to SOON. My third – BURDENS – is now a finalist. My latest short script received some great comments by a screenwriter who taught a Writing the Short Screenplay workshop that I participated in recently.
I’m thinking I might be finding my calling in this crazy writing journey, LOL
Wish me luck!
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