No Story Time-Screenwriting When Life Takes Over

I am in the middle of a huge relocation.. yet again... and I am too stressed out to write. Inspiration is not the problem. My brain is actually fried from stress. In fact, just writing this post seems taxing...  and I know it's a mess. I keep thinking that if I can just get past the holidays, the new year is going to be awesome for my writing.

Well, my plan to overcome this in the meantime is to print out the script and read it in hard copy and blue pencil the heck out of it this weekend... that should promote some re-write material...

ugh...  i can't think straight right now.. this sucks...

 

 

Page 72 & A Preview Of My Lolita Costume For Comikaze

So I just completed 72 pages of my current script and I actually could have kept going, but I stopped myself to think about a scene I added and whether or not it affects something earlier in the story. What do you do when you change something and you need to go back and make sure it's laced through the story properly?

I usually make a note on an index card and come back to it, but for some reason this time I felt like I needed to stop and think about the overall impact of the change. So that is where I am right now. A couple more sessions and I will have the first draft.

In other news, I have compiled all the pieces for my Sweet Lolita costume for Comikaze. Now, I know that Stan Lee has nothing to do with Sweet Lolita's or Kawaii, but I just wouldn't make a very good Cat Woman. So I decided to have fun with it. I have always wanted to go all out with a Kawaii Sweet Lolita Look.

What do you think of my choices for the outfit?

 

 

Tricking Myself Into Writing

I just passed page 60 on my current screenplay. That is 60 pages in under 2 months. For me, that is a great pace. I find that by telling myself I only have to write ONE PAGE and then I am free to do other non-productive things, like gaming, television or social media, I actually trick myself into writing much more. 

I click the Movie Magic Screenplay icon, read back a couple of pages and get going on my supposed ONE PAGE, but I never stop at one page. Once I get myself in the zone, it's so fluid that I can't stop till I have exhausted my brain, which isn't easy to do. One page turns into ten naturally.

Overcoming that first objection by telling myself I am only committing to ONE PAGE seems to work for me. Do you have a trick that works for you?

Unhappy Screenwriter

 I have been too busy to write lately. I know, that is just an excuse. If you have time to post on posterous or check facebook, you have time to write. This is true. Which is probably why I feel so crappy about it. Two days and not a line of action has been put to paper. Tonight I will make up for it and do 10 pages. I'm serious! 

What do you do when you are in a writing funk?

 

A List of Screenwriting Software

A list of Screenwriting Software

http://www.screenplay.com/p-29-movie-magic-screenwriter-6.aspx
MOVIEMAGIC (I use) 
http://celtx.com FREE

• Final Draft - Professional, industry-standard screenwriting software for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
• Celtx - A free project for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux. Includes a mode  for comic book script-writing.
• BPC-Screenplay - Screenwriting software for Microsoft Windows
• FiveSprockets - Free, online, collaborative story-development and scriptwriting software.
• Montage software - Popular screenwriting software for Mac only.
• Movie Magic Screenwriter - Integrated professional screenwriting software. Available on Mac and Microsoft Windows.
• Movie Outline - Professional script writing and story development software for Mac and Windows.
• Page 2 stage  - Free open-source software, designed specifically for Windows. Available in a variety of languages.
• Scripped - Free professional browser-based screenwriting text editing software.
• plotbot [1] - Free online browser-based
• eleanor [2] - creates PDF scripts from any text file.
• Zhura - Free online professional screenwriting software. Features public and group collaboration.
• Pago - Screenwriting plugin for the open-source Vim Text Editor.
• Scrivener - probably the most lightweight, capable, adaptable writing s/w on OSX.
• Storyist [3] - a powerful story development tool for novelists and screenwriters (Mac OS X)
• Adobe Story [4] - Online collaborative scriptwriting software with offline support. (Currently beta)

Black Mana Studios Screenplay[5] - Professional screenwriting software for theiPhone and iPod Touch.
Novamind[6] Mac and Windows. Audio/Visual Visualization software inacorporating an advanced Screenwriting module into the visualization process known as Mind Mapping
Greenwriter: The simple way for Writers to share their screenplays with Producers. Producers pay to view/download scripts. For writers...FREE. Forever.http://www.greenwriter.org 

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