Back from the party!

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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.