Friends... Romans... Countrymen... I kick ass.

[SaintLucifer]

I've just completed my first feature-film script. Now I know for certain and for myself why people do this. It ain't the paycheck, although I'm hoping that'll be enough to let me do this some more.

No, it's the high. It's the unbelievable rush you get from writing a story that just whomps all over everything you've watched in a theater and everything you've written, yourself, up to this point.

I mean holy shit, I just finished a first-pass edit on this one and I already want to do the next one. I can't wait to sit down with Power Structure and plot out the next script, then dive in with Final Draft and get it written.

I mean, sincerely... wow.

Never happened.

 

[SaintLucifer]

The usual torrenty places.

Most interesting. I have seen 11 torrent sites shut down in the last week. Something is up. The RIAA and MPAA are on the move. I told you to watch those motherfuckers, that they hadn't even started yet. 'Pirate Bay' was the first shot.

 

[SaintLucifer]

Reaching critical mass with my desire to start up my own little magnum opus, so I'm gonna start looking for these, along with Final Draft. Any tips for 'acquisition'?

Ever heard of using fucking word-processing software? Shit, OpenOffice is fucking FREE.

 

[Bickendan]

Meh, formatting screenplays in OpenOffice is a fucking pain in the ass. Use Celtx. It's free.

 

[SaintLucifer]

Shouldn't the title for this thread read 'I KISS ass?' After all, The Saint authored it.

 

[Bickendan]

Far as I can tell, he hasn't sent the script Hollywood's way, so no, the title shouldn't be that.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

TS, a Question (as it were):

Did your copy of Power Structure come with any tutorials and/or dvd's about story-building (like the Joseph Campbell journey-of-the-hero stuff, etc etc.) and if so, did you go through any of it before starting to use the software? Or did you just jump right in?

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Oh, and "Dread God" didn't by any chance get turned into this, did it? :techman:

 

[The Question]

No, it didn't. Totally different story ideas.

 

[The Question]

TS, a Question (as it were):

Did your copy of Power Structure come with any tutorials and/or dvd's about story-building (like the Joseph Campbell journey-of-the-hero stuff, etc etc.) and if so, did you go through any of it before starting to use the software? Or did you just jump right in?

Jumped right in. I use the Blake Snyder "Save the Cat" method.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Jumped right in. I use the Blake Snyder "Save the Cat" method.

That reminds me...wonder if I should try & shake all the dust out of my old Syd Fields. Gotta wonder if that shit still sticks --he seemed to know what he was talking about, back in 1994. :shrug:

 

[The Question]

You can get all that same information with the book, "Save the Cat." The steps are always the same, they just have different names -- but Blake Snyder was the only one out of all those writers, IMO, that just gets right down to the point about them.

 

[SaintLucifer]

You can get all that same information with the book, "Save the Cat." The steps are always the same, they just have different names -- but Blake Snyder was the only one out of all those writers, IMO, that just gets right down to the point about them.

You are about as much a 'writer' as I am a lover of NIGGERS. You, writing a screenplay? NEVER HAPPENED.

 

[The Question]

You are, as is customary with you, both incorrect and retarded.

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