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My muse must be aquatic
Aug. 6th, 2006 01:30 pmI always seem to do some of my best brainstorming when I'm either doing dishes or taking a shower. Or when I'm slap-happy from lack of sleep, as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
izhilzha can attest.
Well, this morning as I was getting ready for church, it got a spark of creativity on how to begin my screenplay. Several years ago, I took a creative writing course, and the final project of the semester was to write a short story. I was struggling with the exercises that were supposed to help get us started, then after talking to a cyber-buddy, the story--completely different from the exercises I'd been doing--came to me pretty much in one sitting. Once I started, I just kept going. Things fell into place, and I got the first draft done in one afternoon. The class found it very intriguing and somewhat disturbing, and I got some really good comments and suggestions for it.
Since then, I've worked on it off and on, trying to flesh out the areas where my classmates said they'd like "more"--backstory or research information or specific events in the story or what have you. In the process, the story has sort of gotten bogged down in a lot of things I don't think it really needs. And I've always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to turn this into a screenplay for a short film . . . or maybe something in between a short film and a feature.
I was talking to Geo the other day about the problems I've been having with it, and he suggested that I go back to my original version. This was an excellent suggestion, as a lot of the stuff that's made its way into the story wouldn't play particularly well on screen anyway.
One of the biggest problems I've had when thinking about how to turn this into a screenplay is that I didn't know how to start. So I didn't really have the motivation to do anything toward that end. But this morning, I think I've figured it out! I know how I want to start, and it will include background information that I had no idea how I was going to include in the screenplay.
So, yippee skippee. Maybe now that I've got something to start with, it will just come, like it did when I originally wrote the thing.
izhilzha can attest.Well, this morning as I was getting ready for church, it got a spark of creativity on how to begin my screenplay. Several years ago, I took a creative writing course, and the final project of the semester was to write a short story. I was struggling with the exercises that were supposed to help get us started, then after talking to a cyber-buddy, the story--completely different from the exercises I'd been doing--came to me pretty much in one sitting. Once I started, I just kept going. Things fell into place, and I got the first draft done in one afternoon. The class found it very intriguing and somewhat disturbing, and I got some really good comments and suggestions for it.
Since then, I've worked on it off and on, trying to flesh out the areas where my classmates said they'd like "more"--backstory or research information or specific events in the story or what have you. In the process, the story has sort of gotten bogged down in a lot of things I don't think it really needs. And I've always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to turn this into a screenplay for a short film . . . or maybe something in between a short film and a feature.
I was talking to Geo the other day about the problems I've been having with it, and he suggested that I go back to my original version. This was an excellent suggestion, as a lot of the stuff that's made its way into the story wouldn't play particularly well on screen anyway.
One of the biggest problems I've had when thinking about how to turn this into a screenplay is that I didn't know how to start. So I didn't really have the motivation to do anything toward that end. But this morning, I think I've figured it out! I know how I want to start, and it will include background information that I had no idea how I was going to include in the screenplay.
So, yippee skippee. Maybe now that I've got something to start with, it will just come, like it did when I originally wrote the thing.
