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Opening Statement ▼
Another month has come and gone. Which means it is time for our monthly scriptwriting newsletter. This one is a whole lot better than the last one. Not much better, but a lot better. I know that sound contradicting, but it isn’t. Compared to last month’s newsletter this newsletter is a whole lot better.
There hasn’t been much happening with my two scriptwriting contests, but there has been some. The Daily One Scene Contest only had one entry for this month. That doesn’t sound too good for a daily contest, but it is a new one. It’s also the Summer too. Which is a slow time of the year for WDC activities according one member.
I have done a little bit better with The Monthly Script Writing Contest. There have been only three entries for this month, but that’s enough to make July an official one. That means we do have a winner for the contest in July. If you want to see who it is, you will have go to my contest to see who the winner is.
Tip of the Month ▼
Writing a script with a Scriptwriting Program or from a template like the one I created is the easy part compared to transfer it to WDC. This is when it gets complicating and time consuming, but if you want it to look like your written script then you need to take the time to do it.
Copying your script from your Scriptwriting Program or your template should be too hard to do. It’s after you copy it that it gets complicating. That’s because not only does WDC left justify everything WDC also spreads it out across the whole page. That means you have a lot of re-editing to do to make them both look alike.
At first, I thought you would only need to do the Character Names, the Character Descriptions, and the Dialogue. I was wrong about that. You need to do it with Action Description too. What does that mean? It means you have to go back and forth between the original and the copy to get them to look like each other.
For Character Names, all I thought you needed to do is put twenty s in front of it. That leaves twenty spaces for the Character names. That’s still the same. Unless the name is over twenty spaces, and it should never be, then you need to put up another twenty s.
Character Descriptions are a little different. First, they are fifteen s. That means there are thirty spaces for your Character Descriptions. Most of the time that will be plenty of spaces for what you need to write, but sometimes it isn’t. That’s when you need to end that first set of words and start over with fifteen more s. You will need to do that for each line that is over one.
Dialogue is very similar to Character Descriptions because you need to end one line and start the next one with s. Only instead of fifteen it’s ten s per line. That means you have forty spaces for the dialogue. Sometimes you can do that dialogue in one line, but usually it’s at least two or more lines. You need to end each line as close to forty spaces as you can. Then you need to start over with the ten s. You’ll need to do that with each additional line of dialogue that you have.
I thought that I didn’t need to do anything with the Action Descriptions, but I was wrong about that too. It’s like the Character Descriptions and the Dialogue that has more than one line. You need to end each line like it was written in your original scripts. The only difference between Action Descriptions, Character Names, Character Descriptions, and Dialogue is that there are no s with Action Descriptions.
It takes time for you to do all of this, but if you want the copy to look like the original then you need to do it. Most members of WDC would disagree with that. That probably includes most the scriptwriters we have here. They say that it’s close enough, or that it’s not important. I disagree with that. Whether it’s a Short Story, Poetry, or Scripts there is a certain way to do them. It can be a pain in the neck to do them, but it must be done. At least I think that it should be.
July Participants ▼
There wasn’t too much participation in my two scriptwriting contests in July, but there was a little bit. That’s four times as many as there was from June. One of those was for The Daily One Scene Contest and three for The Monthly Script Writing Contest.
Quest-YELLOW-Thanks Schnujo is the only one who participated in The Daily One Scene Contest. The July 4th Prompt for that day was Questions and Answers. Mastiff, Bedrock - The Lurker King, and trailerpark bodhisattva are the three entries for The Monthly Script Writing Contest. Congratulations to the winner of that July contest.
July Entries ▼
The four entries in July are Jungle Spook, A Lonely Part of the Forest, A Case for Love, and ExBoyfriend. Jungle Spook is the entry for The Daily One Scene Contest. A lonely Part of the Forest, A Case for Love, and ExBoyfriend are the entries for The Monthly Script Writing Contest. I wanted to congratulate all four entries. Loved reading all of them.
July Reviews ▼
Of course, I reviewed all of them. Reviewed Jungle Spook on the fifth. The other three I just finished reviewing midday on Friday, August the third. I would like to place these reviews in the monthly newsletter, especially when there are only a few of them like it is for July, but that is up to the individual scriptwriters. So far, no one has given me reason to do that.
July Winners ▼
There were no winners for The Daily One Scene Contest. That is because there was only one entry, and it takes at least two per day to make a winner for that day. It’s different for The Monthly Script Writing Contest. There was a winner with that contest. Of course, the only way for you to see who the winner is for July is to check out the contest.
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