My grandmother has continues to threaten me!!

[Supreme Admiral]

Will it just be a metaphorical vault, or are you planning on a physical monument to your masterpiece?

You already know it yourself. I'm already planning on a physical monument to my masterpiece. It's just that my project shouldn't be risen back from the vault to tells stories itself. So it would be the best to remain dead for long time to comes.

Unless somebody comes to me and convince that they got the vision out of my project and wants to telling the stories itself, I'll be on full board for it. I don't want to be end up like George Lucas who told stories from all over again and again. Do you get me, yes?

 

[Holdfast]

Will it just be a metaphorical vault, or are you planning on a physical monument to your masterpiece?

You already know it yourself. I'm already planning on a physical monument to my masterpiece. It's just that my project shouldn't be risen back from the vault to tells stories itself. So it would be the best to remain dead for long time to comes.

I suggest creating a massive Palladian mausoleum, ringed round with enchanted wards to guard against your stories rising from the dead. I hear vampire books can only be killed by a silver bookmark through the spine, so I totally understand your worry about their rising again.

Unless somebody comes to me and convince that they got the vision out of my project and wants to telling the stories itself, I'll be on full board for it. I don't want to be end up like George Lucas who told stories from all over again and again. Do you get me, yes?

I dig you, Kubrick.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Is your script about a killer robot driving instructor who travels back in time for some reason (and his best friend is a talking pie)?

You could tie her to a chair. She's proably old, so she won't be able to put up much of a fight, and then read your scripts to her. If she likes them she will stop bugging you. If she doesn't you can call the police and say your grandma has gone nuts and you had to tie her up. It's time for her to go to a nursing home. This will allow you to ocntinue your career path without any interference from her.

Jason

Listen to this man, he gives great advice. And when you have her tied to the chair, you should also tickle her. You should tickle the shit out of her.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Is your script about a killer robot driving instructor who travels back in time for some reason (and his best friend is a talking pie)?

You've got it all wrong about my scripts. Like I said, I'm very protective of my scripts. So..don't get any wrong ideas of this!

 

[Australis]

SA, some thoughts.

One: you can't be overprotective of your scripts. Someone's gonna have to see them someday.

Two: not to be cruel, but I really hope your scripts are better written than your posts here. Wrong grammer, tense shifts, missing words... it goes on. Slow down and post a little more coherently, then we might believe you can do it. This has little to do with you being deaf, just look how English is used in books and magazines, hell, even here people are pretty erudite (with a few very notable exceptions).

Three: the people who get to become President are the guys out front, the actors like Reagan. Backroom boys, like writers... don't. Or put it another way, high profile gets Prez, writers are rarely that high profile.

Four: don't expect to get a job in Glitz City just because you're the 'deaf writer guy'. Marlee Matlin got by as the 'deaf actor chick' for a while, but had to prove her chiops as an actress to keep working, which she has.

Five: if you're basic idea is a ST/SW/TF mashup, make sure to inject as much original material around those ideas as possible to distance it from its inspirations. Some of my own scripts have started from a phrase or idea, and I work them and rework them to get them to sing. Or, as some writer guy put it: "Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank piece of paper until you sweat drops of blood". With the only change now being monitor screen instead of paper.

Six: I know what it's like to live in a house with People Who Do Not Get It. My wife and kids, frankly, give me shit about it. So I go out into the world doing jobs I often dislike, even hate, but that's what I gotta do, not just for them, but to hopefully, at day's end, buy me some time where I can be uninterrupted and not nagged, hassled or derided. Every day my concentration is disrupted, but I've come much too far to go back. I will get there - it's just that the journey is far longer than I anticipated. If you really want it, persevere. Even if you only get down half a page a day, the only way to go is forward. Even if you think you're writing utter crap, at least you'll have something to change and make better (a writing tip from William Goldman).

Hang in there. Good luck.

 

[Da'an]

Are you a LOLcat? Because I find it very hard to believe that your inability to hear in any language can justify your inability to write in the English one.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Nobody who writes in a similar fashion to a 7 year old is going to get a writers job unless the actual stories are exceptionally unique and original and even then I personally would find it difficult to read something where the English is so bad so i'm sure publishers would too.
It's hard for me to read books at the best of times but I am capable of reading posts on a msg board but when it came to reading your posts I just gave in because the English was so terrible. I got half way through the OP and then had to come back 10 mins later to finish it because I decided to give it one last attempt.

I really don't want to burst your bubble, i'm sure becoming a writer is your dream but rather than patronise you i'd sooner just come out and say it like it is. You wont succeed as a writer until you rectify your written English.

As for the whole grandma and living with her problem. Go get a job and go get your own place. At "nearly 25" you should be moved out deaf or not, being deaf is not an excuse to still be living with parents or grandparents especially if you're not happy living with them.

 

[Shazam!]

I'm still on the journey to becoming executive producer, head writer, actor, director.

Where are you now?

 

[Rincewiend]

2 tips

1. enroll in a story writing course.
2. try to sell some of your scripts/stories to book publishers

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I'm still on the journey to becoming executive producer, head writer, actor, director.

Where are you now?

In his grandmothers basement.

 

[Shazam!]

I see.

 

[Holdfast]

I got half way through the OP and then had to come back 10 mins later to finish it because I decided to give it one last attempt.

BUT YOU CAME BACK FOR MORE! This proves he is an awesome writer. I sense a long-running series with many sequels.

I'm still on the journey to becoming executive producer, head writer, actor, director.

Where are you now?

Well on the way on the journey to BBS fame.

 

[FalTorPan]

For love of god, I'm almost 25 years old....

To be honest with you; she intentionally interrupts my journey to reach the cross line to finish it....

What should I do? I'm not ready to learn to live on my own, but I will have to do....

You're not on a journey as long as you're mooching off of your grandmother. Be an adult. Get a job. If you really want to pursue a dream, then you'll still make time to pursue it while you're paying your own bills.

 

[captcalhoun]

am i the only one who thinks this guy's on drugs? Jeez I've read posts from people ON drugs that make more sense.

 

[Laren]

I got half way through the OP and then had to come back 10 mins later to finish it because I decided to give it one last attempt.

BUT YOU CAME BACK FOR MORE! This proves he is an awesome writer. I sense a long-running series with many sequels.

And TEN prequels! At least! But unfortunately those will be locked away in a huge, big vault so no one can deface them with uninspired responses.

 

[nevermore]

Nobody who writes in a similar fashion to a 7 year old is going to get a writers job unless the actual stories are exceptionally unique and original and even then I personally would find it difficult to read something where the English is so bad so i'm sure publishers would too.

Oh, I don't know. They published Irvine Welsh.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Am I the only person who thinks that OP has other disabilites besides hearing and needs help rather than insults?

(Unless of course he's just a troll having a larf pretending to be a disabled person, etc)

Maybe we need more thinking before posting, either way?

AGREED. Totally. Deifinitely.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Are you a LOLcat? Because I find it very hard to believe that your inability to hear in any language can justify your inability to write in the English one.

Dude, you apparently didn't read what I posted earlier in the thread.

And I actually spent time in a forum once doing research on a story years ago, where there were a good number of deaf/hard-of-hearing individuals, and the grammar and spelling do run the gamut from individual to individual. Some people you would never have any indication, other people, yes...this is about what the grammar would look like. Believe it or not, even before the OP identified himself as deaf, I could identify it just by the particular way that words were used. I can usually identify any poster's native language (or at least the family of languages) just by the way they use the English language. Signed or spoken, this is no exception.

Believe it or not, true sign language has its own grammar and idioms completely separate from any spoken language. Now, I am hearing and do not profess to be an expert (hell, I barely knew any words in ASL, can sorta fingerspell, but that's it)...however, the grammar is radically different from English. If you are thinking of sign language that IS close to English, that is probably some form of Pidgin Signed English (PSE) or Signed Exact English (SEE). PSE is in fact a pidgin/contact language much like Hawaiian Pidgin. SEE is not a language in its own right, but a mere "transcription" of English, or cipher. You may be thinking ASL is like either of those two languages...but it's not.

So let me be clear. If you are going to criticize, PLEASE do it from an accurate knowledge base with full comprehension of the steps the OP may need or wish to take to accomplish and/or refine his goals. The "drug" comments and other signs of ignorance on the subject (and I mean "ignorant" in the literal sense of "does not know about this subject," not as "dumb," "redneck," or anything else that could possibly be construed as a general statement) are not helping you, the OP, or anybody else.

 

[freak]

Am I the only person who thinks that OP has other disabilites besides hearing and needs help rather than insults?

(Unless of course he's just a troll having a larf pretending to be a disabled person, etc)

Maybe we need more thinking before posting, either way?

I definitely agree with this statement. I have a similar situation with the OP so I do simpathize with his situation. Some people can't really help being in the situation that they are in. Times are tough, jobs are hard to find, and money is really tight. When I first read the OP's post, I at first thought that this person was from a different country, not understanding English very well(the grammer in the post wasn't very good at all and was poorly done..sorry to say). But now I realize that it's not just being deaf..some people have learning disabilities and can't help the way they type, write, or do other things(I outta know cause I have one myself!) and it does not make it right for others to criticize and get on this person's case because of it though! I had a principal in the eighth grade criticise me and tell mom that I wouldn't amount to a hill of beans and would NEVER be college material. And here I am, now a college graduate but job searching(which has been tough!). I did prove her wrong in a way and am proud of myself for accomplishing what I did. My point is that if you have the means and the wills, don't let your grandma get you down! If you have the $$, find you a second-hand apartment and move out when you can. That's just my 0.02 cents on the matter!

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

It's not even necessarily an issue of learning disabilities, but of how the OP might've been educated.

What REALLY needs to happen--what the true issue is--is this.

There is a difference between dreams and S.M.A.R.T. goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely/Tangible. It is all well and good to have dreams, but in order to accomplish those dreams, they must be defined very tightly and all of the steps needed to accomplish that goal need to be planned out. All of the resources need to be in line to accomplish that goal--linguistic, financial, personal, and otherwise. Most goals CAN indeed be accomplished, but there has GOT to be a coherent plan, one that starts from the very beginning and acquires all of the building blocks necessary to reach for the prize.

When a person finds they do not have all of the resources, you have two options: take constructive steps to acquire those resources, or redefine your goal. If I were in the OP's shoes, I would take steps first to become financially independent and get into an environment more conducive to creativity and general well-being. At some point in the process, I would also suggest enrolling in some continuing education courses with a defined goal in mind--moving from the goal of increasing general proficiency with the written English language into, at some point, specific formatting required for scripts and screenplays, submission requirements, and personal marketing skills required (after all, in such a competitive environment, it tends to be necessary to get an agent). What order these steps are taken in depends on if the continuing education is necessary before or after the job that will provide sufficient financial independence to move out. Depending on what turns out to be necessary, this could end up requiring a LOT of patience. Or things might happen very quickly--there's simply no telling from afar.

But there has GOT to be a clear, step-by-step plan with achievable, measurable, and logical steps to get from Point A to Point B, or else nothing will happen. That's true of anyone. Dreams have to be converted to goals, in order to become reality.