(5:07 pm local time 14 July 2008. Writer's block has a firm grip on me. Added the MySpace URL I chose recently - like 3 years after making a 'Space.)
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BIO:
Most of the stuff I have posted here is popcorny action. I do love that stuff, particularly movies (Die Hard #1 comes to mind, even though it's kinda cheesy and dumb), and want to make some movies like it, but it's not the only thing - genre?- I want to do, either. Not by a long shot!
I'm always too wordy. Sorry.
I'm illiterate.
A couple movies I like a lot at the moment - that I can think of: Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1975), The Star Wars (yeah, that one; George Lucas, 1977), Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974), Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Airplane! (x3 dudes, 1980), Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Bottle Rocket (1994) in particular, Joel and Ethan Coen's Raising Arizona (1987 (mostly for Nicolas Cage's expressions)), Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy (1981 (ish), 1987, 1992) and The Quick and the Dead (1995 (I know it's terrible, I just like the dolly zooms), El Laberinto del fauno (Guillermo del Toro, 2006), Michael Mann's Collateral (2004), The Mummy (1999, Stephen Sommers)
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(If that's not enough, MySpace. But plz note that I haven't really been on there in about a year. That's not deliberate.)
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Mini-new piece (screenplay): It Happened OR Wrath of the White Monster. I just wanted to try to get rid of the writer's block I have. Just posted. I'm also going with a subtler, streamlineder design for screenplay-format-to-FP-format, so please let me know which you like better. I don't want to distract, I'm just trying to follow the screenplay format as best I can.
-If you read more than a couple scenes ("chapters") of It Happened you'll probably more or less figure it out. Anyway here's the deal: I tried to manipulate the 'play somewhat to make it more accessible. That said, tho, you probably won't read it, but if you do, you still won't review it. Please prove me wrong.
-The above - saying you won't R&R - is not a dare, it's just that the stuff I post here and really care about never gets any reviews, or at least hasn't since Headache. (By reviews I actually mean reviews, not just attention.) I'm feeling very discouraged at the moment. Rant over.
-I'm posting that because...I just felt like it, I dunno. The last time I revised it or anything was months ago, and I finished writing it years ago, so it's not currently being written, but please don't think you can't help make it better.
New piece (screenplay): Dream About How I Will Let Go. I'm writing the fourth scene, conceptualizing more, keeping my themes 'n' sitch (ref to tonight's new South Park episode) in mind. I have writer's block. Hard.
-113 whole hits! How many of you pick as many reviews out of your teeth when you're flossing? Fuck. Am I just that bad?
-Please read it and let me know what you think. It's a writing experiment and I desperately need your help. It's a writing exercise too, but...come on.
-Third chapter posted Wednesday, 9 April 2008. Second chapter posted Thursday, 3 April. No violence after the first chapter.
-Chapter titles: It isn't out of malaise but for lack of...fuel, I'll say, that I haven't named either of them. No ideas at all. Dried up. Barren. Unlubricated. If you have any euphemisms you'd like to contribute, please contribute them, and consider yourself credited for your work. Or for that matter, suggest a chapter (scene) title, forGod'ssake. I'll insert an A/N about it and hyperlink to your profile, or whatever else you want (that's just the plan I thought of). If nobody helps, I'll probably think of something eventually; The guys in Chiodos just throw out names for songs on their tourbus until something sticks; I'll pretty much do that.
-Begun exactly 1:16 am 16 March 2008, but thought of a month before then. It really matters to me which minute I start writing stuff. Not!
-FORMAT: I think it's important to note because while I cheat toward literature a lot more than real writers do (I'm not a writer), and overwrite anyway, I still try to stick to format, which can be and is confusing, not to mention contradictory (the link is basically right). 12-point 10-pitch Courier New (I don't know what "pitch" is), no double-spacing except between paragraphs 'n' stuff, but you can't indent and the margins are all fucked up. The elements are three: sluglines (like "INT. - LOCAL 432 - NIGHT"), action ("literature") and dialogue (character names in all-caps, occasional notes like whether somebody's onscreen or if it's voiceover...the list goes on). Also note that I include camera direction, which you're not supposed to at all as it's not a screenwriter's place to consider such things (listen to the Hostel 2 'cast). But I'm a director.
(And please excuse the length of the above 'graph.)
-The format shouldn't get in the way, it's just that it will stand out here. I'm also attempting it in the bad action movie screenplay MIGRAINE, below, and I tried it here once before in something nobody reviewed. So I'm a little more familiar with it now than some. Also note that because FP only has center or left-align - no tabs, margins, etc - the format may appear even weirder than it already would. Let me know if anything sticks out as...looks-wrong, please; I want to make the screenplay format fit the FP...rules, I guess, as well as I can.
-As of writing I haven't referenced it too obviously, and I probably won't, but one of the myriad things that inspired me to write Dream About How I Will Let Go is on this site - it's "Collateral for a Broken Heart," kanari kireteru doll's story.
-Another, more influencial inspiration: Gus Van Sant's Elephant. It's really good.
Old piece: Fonda.
If you're going to read it keep in mind that it is supposed to be pretty weird.
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