Back from the party!

[vg_ford]

And more Christmas presents bought! Go me!

(I'm really hoping to be DONE with shopping by the end of November. I really am.)

So now it's back to the book. I also ran an idea for Episode 1 of Broken Wings past my collaborators and got enthusiastic squeals of glee responses from at least one of them. So I need to get cracking on the rest of the characters for that and start working on the story.

That will be a challenge in and of itself. I'm envisioning more of a screenplay script than a traditional story, and I've never done a screenplay. Any suggestions from any of my flist who works on screenplays would be MOST appreciated (yes, queenoftheskies, I WAS looking at you! *grin*)

So we'll see. I think this is going to be an interesting season coming up. Got another non-fiction idea percolating too, but I don't want to talk about that yet.

Oh, and apparently World Fantasy Con is in Calgary in 2008. I think I might be there.

Okay, back to work. I'm in FM Chat if anyone wants to come and distract me war with me.

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I am so impressed that you're working on Christmas shopping already. I wish I could say I was, but...alas.

Oooooh, you'll love writing a screenplay, though it's much different from writing a novel.

The format, of course, is quite different. There are templates you can get for Word that will format for you. There's also some freeware you can download. I can check on that for you, if you like, as I know someone who uses one.

I have both Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000 and Final Draft, but MMS2K is my software of preference. I only have the latter because I won it in a screenwriting contest.

I can recommend some very good screenwriting books. I especially recommend two books by the teacher I just had for class. His name is Tom Lazarus and he wrote the movie Stigmata, among many others.

The books are Secrets of Film Writing and Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters.

I just got a new book that I'm thoroughly enjoying, too. Writing for Emotional Impact by Karl Iglesias.

And, of course, people always recommend reading a lot of screenplays. Personally, I did at first...or at least glanced at them. Not so much now.

If there's any information you need, just yell my direction. I love screenwriting as much as I love novel writing. Both are great.

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Cool - thank you! I just ordered a book on writing for comics as well, but screenplays sound really cool. I'll have to check out those books.

I'm always interested in freeware programs as well. There are templates for screenplays in Word? How odd. I'll have to look.

Thanks again for the help! I'm sure I'll be yelling!