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Some random threads here. |
| This is a collection of random blogs mainly involving my own search for assistance and direction and maybe some thoughts on random things. |
| I have considering writing and producing radio scripts a la the mighty boosh and flight of the conchords as a precursor and hopeful way in to television writing. The appeal of radio scripting is that it is more likely to be produced, hones your dialogue writing skills and can be produced at home on a normal computer. However, for thos of you who have written radio scirpts, is it better just to provide a detailed outline of the episode and let the key players ad lib specific dialogue or is it more common to transcribe every single piece of speech and sound effects. Given that friends and myself would be voicing it, it seems more efficient to have a general idea and reward the spontaneity of live performance. Feel free to tell me. |
| One key reason I joined this writing website was to generate feedback for a sitcom pilot script I have been working on. At the moment I am unsure of exactly how to post it. Would a simple cut and paste do it? As anyone who knows anything about scripts can attest, format and appearance is important and I'm worried the professionalis would be lost by this approach. Another option is to simply link to a website that can host it for me and re-direct potential readers there. Is that the way to go? I would love to hear from anyone who has done a similar thing or had the same trouble about what they did. |
| I thought it only fitting to start any blog about writing with a nod to Shakespeare, the great English master. My point is this: when you're writing (prose, not a script) is it best to use adverbs? Great writers like Hemmingway suggest that the verb should say everything it has to, so there should be no need to embellish it. I’m finding it quite difficult, sometimes when I write, I try to be quite purple in my prose, verbose, if you will. Other times maybe I try too hard to copy Ol' Ernest and feel like I'm trying to force the simplicity. Put it this way: simplicity is what I want but I don't want to sound amateur. Every time I write some dialogue and then just say "he said" or "she said" it feels like I'm a 4th grader without any imagination. Yet that's the way they do it, those timeless authors. There's an art to it and I want to discover what it is. |
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