I’ve started using a visual way to develop my screenplay, which is working out rather well. I’ve been working on a rather intriticate story that covers multiple timelines (past and present) that converge midway through the story. It was driving me bonkers trying to remember what happened ” before” something else in the narrative.
I went [...]
Visualizing your plot in full color
September 14th, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: ideas · plot · visualization
Keeping the juices flowing with word exercises
June 14th, 2008 No Comments
All the members of my writing group are working on different projects and topics, with many different speeds and styles. We’re very different writers, but all share the common affliction of sometimes just having the creative well run dry. To combat that we started choosing a random word for each session for everyone to work [...]
Got the sound, got the fury, but am I signifying anything?
March 30th, 2008 No Comments
Like a lot of writers, the ideas are the things that get me excited. I get partway through a project and one, two, or ten new ideas pop into my nogging begging for attention. The crazier and more cosmically weird, the better.
This creates two frequent problems for me. The first is that I struggle against [...]
Tags: characters · ideas · Y: The Last Man