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Here's one:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ihKq34Ozc[/yt]
Here's one:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ihKq34Ozc[/yt]
My projects.
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And someone else who speaks eloquently:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBW7ysPcbT0[/yt]
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBW7ysPcbT0[/yt]
What's the problem here? CJ is easy to understand.
I do like your writing style mr Jack. But remember, 'there is nothing new under the sun'. It is easier to borrow from many sources than to invent a story that hasn't been told.
Look at the Collingwood Football Club. We won the premiership this year (it's like the Superbowl but Australian) using tactics that our coach Mick Malthouse borrowed from Rommel (the desert fox) and the old Roman legions (something called the 'box' formation)
Inspired plagiarism is your friend.
In any event keep at it, don't listen to mundane people, and eventually your projects will come to fruitition. Especially if you retain this unique writing style of yours.
I do like your writing style mr Jack. But remember, 'there is nothing new under the sun'. It is easier to borrow from many sources than to invent a story that hasn't been told.
Look at the Collingwood Football Club. We won the premiership this year (it's like the Superbowl but Australian) using tactics that our coach Mick Malthouse borrowed from Rommel (the desert fox) and the old Roman legions (something called the 'box' formation)
Inspired plagiarism is your friend.
In any event keep at it, don't listen to mundane people, and eventually your projects will come to fruitition. Especially if you retain this unique writing style of yours.
Finally, a coherent piece of information. It took only two threads of I can't imagine how many posts to get to this point.
By definition, a writer needs to be able to communicate well. Frankly, Cheapjack, you don't seem to have that skill. Am I correct in assuming that you support yourself doing something else and write in your spare time?
64 posts and I still don't know what this is supposed to be about... 
You know, I could actually see this as a movie idea.
The objective for the viewer is to work out what the protagonist does, and between vague dialog and nonspecific activities, there are little hints being dropped that you have to jigsaw together ... Something reminiscent of Memento [2000] in that you'd have to watch it three or four times to see how it all fits together.
Did you ever think, how much fun, it would be, to write about things in vague generalizations, so that no one would understand what you were talking about? Not even five or six in your entire town?
Especially when, you get paid to write, and are forced to show, both clarity and brevity in your written work, could writing around in circles be somewhat liberating?
I was talking once, to a man from Saskatoon, and a woman from somewhere to the east, and they said that most people do too. One of them was a longshoreman and the other was a colorist. When the waitress came, to take my order, she understood the question.
If it was in this style's convention, to allude to anything at all concrete, I would say that the original poster might be on to something, but probably isn't.
Especially when, you get paid to write, and are forced to show, both clarity and brevity in your written work, could writing around in circles be somewhat liberating?
I was talking once, to a man from Saskatoon, and a woman from somewhere to the east, and they said that most people do too. One of them was a longshoreman and the other was a colorist. When the waitress came, to take my order, she understood the question.
If it was in this style's convention, to allude to anything at all concrete, I would say that the original poster might be on to something, but probably isn't.
Nope, that would be wrong. I was the first one to suggest you're just a bad conversation A.I.
Okay, including Dennis, Christopher, garamet, and a few others I can't rememebr, there ARE writers here.
Like me. My first script was for VOY (bite me), the open submission policy made it okay. That script, the very first one I wrote, got me a phone call from LA (and I'm in Australia) inviting me to pitch ideas. It never went beyond "we're doing one like that" or "that's a direction we don't want to go" but they were encouraging and thought the ideas were "on the right track". Since then I've written numerous scripts, spent a year researching and writing a miniseries, and a bunch of other stuff. To date, two scripts are in development with a local company, one will eventually (probably years from now) be a SyFy move. Two TV pilot scripts are under consideration with a national network, it's just taking time to get a production company on board (it's a different story), and at the end of last year, a guy at a forum I visit asked for a 5 minute film noir. I wrote it, edited it the next day, sold it to him. He's making it later this year, and registered it with the WGA, so I now have a credit there too. This has taken years to get to, I should add, but that's because Real Life was going on.
So I know a little of what I speak, and where you're coming from. You could have been a lot clearer. Do you work on staff for some show or something? If so watch Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, and especially when they talk about the Writers' Room. Guys there weren't getting sketches on at all, for seasons on end. They did when they got good enough. Which sounds like your problem here.
Some advice: look up Scriptwriters Goldmine, and join their forum. You can discuss your ideas freely because no one cares, they all have their own ideas and projects they're working on, too busy to steal yours. And they are pretty straight up with advice and comments.
But jeeze. don't go there and wibble like you do here. It's a more appropriate forum to discuss this stuff. Don't waste your time and everyone else's here.
Like me. My first script was for VOY (bite me), the open submission policy made it okay. That script, the very first one I wrote, got me a phone call from LA (and I'm in Australia) inviting me to pitch ideas. It never went beyond "we're doing one like that" or "that's a direction we don't want to go" but they were encouraging and thought the ideas were "on the right track". Since then I've written numerous scripts, spent a year researching and writing a miniseries, and a bunch of other stuff. To date, two scripts are in development with a local company, one will eventually (probably years from now) be a SyFy move. Two TV pilot scripts are under consideration with a national network, it's just taking time to get a production company on board (it's a different story), and at the end of last year, a guy at a forum I visit asked for a 5 minute film noir. I wrote it, edited it the next day, sold it to him. He's making it later this year, and registered it with the WGA, so I now have a credit there too. This has taken years to get to, I should add, but that's because Real Life was going on.
So I know a little of what I speak, and where you're coming from. You could have been a lot clearer. Do you work on staff for some show or something? If so watch Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, and especially when they talk about the Writers' Room. Guys there weren't getting sketches on at all, for seasons on end. They did when they got good enough. Which sounds like your problem here.
Some advice: look up Scriptwriters Goldmine, and join their forum. You can discuss your ideas freely because no one cares, they all have their own ideas and projects they're working on, too busy to steal yours. And they are pretty straight up with advice and comments.
But jeeze. don't go there and wibble like you do here. It's a more appropriate forum to discuss this stuff. Don't waste your time and everyone else's here.
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This.
I am also on that list. I HAVE written a few actual spec scripts for both DS9 and VOY, and I have also worked as a script proofreader before. You need to be clear, concise, and grab someone's attention, while being to-the-point, as well as have a rudimentary command of proper English. If you can't type a proper forum post... I wonder what your script format looked like...
If you were simply tired or something, you could have said so, and explained your lack of cohesive writing that way, other than going on being vague.
This.
I am also on that list. I HAVE written a few actual spec scripts for both DS9 and VOY, and I have also worked as a script proofreader before. You need to be clear, concise, and grab someone's attention, while being to-the-point, as well as have a rudimentary command of proper English. If you can't type a proper forum post... I wonder what your script format looked like...
If you were simply tired or something, you could have said so, and explained your lack of cohesive writing that way, other than going on being vague.
Nowhere Man
Commodore
This sorta reminds me of "Sienfield", a show about nothing.
You know...as I was reading your second sentence, I thought about Memento too!
Watch this guy doing random shit and having vague conversations for 2 hours and then guess what he does for a living. A mystery! Awesome!
^ That's what writers do.
And an excellent word it is, too!
Now see, you being a writer, I can believe.
Nowhere Man
Commodore
You know...as I was reading your second sentence, I thought about Memento too!
Watch this guy doing random shit and having vague conversations for 2 hours and then guess what he does for a living. A mystery! Awesome!
I'm sure Nolan could make it work.
Starring Johnny Depp.
You know...as I was reading your second sentence, I thought about Memento too!
Watch this guy doing random shit and having vague conversations for 2 hours and then guess what he does for a living. A mystery! Awesome!
I'm sure Nolan could make it work.
Twenty Questions: The Movie.
Sojourner,
I think it has been logged that I said that I was actually a first generation interactive AI program, about a year ago. Perhaps that's why authors don't post here, or at least say they don't. I might run out of ideas and do the same too, if I ever get paid for this. I'm jaded, but not that jaded.
I also wish I didn't take my cues from Hal and lose in writing 50% of the time, too, or 99.9%, as I do.
Thanks for the positive replies.
I think it has been logged that I said that I was actually a first generation interactive AI program, about a year ago. Perhaps that's why authors don't post here, or at least say they don't. I might run out of ideas and do the same too, if I ever get paid for this. I'm jaded, but not that jaded.
I also wish I didn't take my cues from Hal and lose in writing 50% of the time, too, or 99.9%, as I do.
Thanks for the positive replies.
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