Fuck you, get off TWW, get back to your screenplay.

11/15/2008 4:51:36 AM

and just live

11/15/2008 4:51:50 AM

(This thread is so I will see it in my topics and the aforementioned conversation will happen with myself and I will oblige. It's for my own benefit. You don't have to post here.)

11/15/2008 4:52:44 AM

posting anyway

11/15/2008 4:53:18 AM

good

11/15/2008 4:58:10 AM

post again

how's the screenplay coming along?

11/15/2008 5:00:26 AM

Pretty well. When I stop in a few minutes I'll be a little less that 20% done with the first draft.

Actually I don't know how long it's going to be exactly, so that is an estimate.

11/15/2008 5:03:54 AM

and i'm spent.

good night, tdub.

11/15/2008 5:14:13 AM

night dude hope it goes well

11/15/2008 5:15:58 AM

successful thread, time to get to work

11/15/2008 8:19:54 PM

slight writer's block road bump. I shall overcome. Time to watch the fsu game for five minutes.

damn, it's halftime.

[Edited on November 15, 2008 at 9:39 PM. Reason : j]

11/15/2008 9:33:40 PM

what's your screenplay about?

i promise i won't steal your idea and sell it to make millions

11/15/2008 9:43:35 PM

it involves a "love triangle" of sorts I guess? hardcore mental "problems," that won't actually be a problem when it's over? and eventually violence I'm guessing.

More as more happens, I'm not sure exactly where I'm taking it yet, I'm experimenting with minimal outlining.

"if the author doesn't know exactly where the story is going, there's no way the audience will know."

I've written some shorts, I'm trying to get a feature under my belt and get some notes on it and improve and such. The Intermediate Scriptwriting course at my school filling up before my registration time helped motivate me to do this.

[Edited on November 15, 2008 at 10:58 PM. Reason : hfdhfs]

11/15/2008 10:58:09 PM

I'm about to kill my main character's dog, I think.

edit: his girlfriend's dog, rather.

[Edited on November 15, 2008 at 11:28 PM. Reason : hfds]

11/15/2008 11:28:15 PM

11/15/2008 11:28:33 PM

It needs to happen though.

11/15/2008 11:31:44 PM

This threads rawks! Do continue.

11/15/2008 11:55:17 PM

I'll update on the story's happenings when I stop tonight.

11/16/2008 12:08:47 AM

well the dog, Pookie, is still alive.

actually he isn't, the audience just hasn't found out he's dead yet. that will happen like two or fewer pages from now, i have to stop for the night though.


so basically there was going to be a mutual breakup occurring soon, the protagonist and his cheating girlfriend want other people, but it isn't going to go smoothly due in part to the dog dying. The protagonist accidentally kills the dog(leaves his crazy pills open), and the girlfriend is mad attached to the dog, while the protagonist hated the dog. The soon-to-be-former girlfriend's new boy toy is a chivalrous(?)(protective?), drunk, violent redneck dick. We shall see where this goes.



oh, the dog dies because he eats all of the protagonist's crazy pills that stop him from hallucinating or something else maybe, I haven't needed to address his exact ailment yet. The protagonist and his girlfriend are visiting their old college town currently, so he can't get any more pills. This is also where the redneck dick and the girl that the protagonist used to crush on and wants now still reside.

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 4:39 AM. Reason : .]

11/17/2008 4:35:27 AM

^ Hmm. Why is the girlfriend's new boytoy so unlikeable? Seems cliche. You can get your audience to like your main character without making the "villain" a total douche.

11/17/2008 5:16:10 AM

Yeah, confuse 'em a little.

11/17/2008 8:08:56 AM

well he's not incredibly unlikeable in the script, I guess I flattened him a ittle lot when I typed that last night.

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 2:32 PM. Reason : .]

11/17/2008 2:31:16 PM

I actually prefer the villains to be more human and personable in scripts, mainly because it makes me choose sides for reasons that go deeper than the typical "villain" behavior.

I'm thinking more about the protagonist in Hosseini's The Kite Runner. He's the good guy but a total douchebag as a kid.

11/17/2008 9:33:39 PM

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[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM. Reason : alkjdald]

11/17/2008 9:34:18 PM

Yeah.

I saw that.

11/17/2008 9:35:13 PM

k

11/17/2008 9:35:44 PM

yeah, the villain is like, an old friend of the protagonist. But some certain qualities of his coupled with the events will lead to his being an antagonist.

Time to continue writing.

11/17/2008 10:19:41 PM

Could you like, host it and post the link?

I'm sure a lot of us want to read your progress.

11/17/2008 10:24:39 PM

So?

11/23/2008 6:56:43 PM