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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2010, 06:27:39 PM »

you should enjoy it.

That's so... You need to apply seat of pants to seat of chair and write, and if you don't like it, it's not going to work.

They are emotional . Emotional  stories touches my heart . I know sci-fiction and horror are popular but I don't like reading such genre .
I have to both agree and disagree with my compatriot Padma here... I have trouble with horror films, also.  How can you kill people entertainingly without being too gory, gross, or over-the-top?  {Unless, of course, over-the-top is what you're trying to do...}
Science fiction has gotten a bad rap, I think, from too many crap movies made by people who don't understand the genre, and don't care to learn...
Padma's models for "emotional" stories, Danielle Steele and Nora Roberts, don't really get me like that, but that could be for any number of reasons.  De gustibus non disputandum, as they say.*
A thought... you might want to consider partnering up with somebody, at least for now.  Partners can (and have) learned from the strengths of the other, and thereby improved their own writing.

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Al B.

* - Latin, means "About tastes there is no disputing"; idiomatic English translation, "No accounting for tastes".
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2010, 02:50:11 AM »

Nope , unless you are very passionate you cannot write script writing.
 you should enjoy it . It also depends on the genre you like .
I love  reading books from Daniella steel ,Nora Roberts . I am greatly influenced .
They are emotional . Emotional  stories touches my heart .
I know sci-fiction and horror are popular but I don't like reading such genre .
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2010, 11:24:20 PM »

First ... WELCOME!

How many scripts have you read? All of the books, lectures and seminars won't help you if you haven't gotten your hands "dirty" reading screenplays. Since I started this website over 10 years ago, I've read close to a thousand scripts, most not so good. Often, I can spot a grammatical error within seconds of looking over a page ... it takes much longer if it's a page I wrote, though. The point is ... you develop and eye for the page ... and the only way to acquire the skill is to simply read scripts. It's better if you read good ones, but you learn much from the not-so-good ones too.
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« on: February 21, 2010, 10:02:12 AM »

I'm new to this post and a little green when it comes to the screenwriting business.  I have a question for anyone that wants to answer.  For the past 4-5 years, I've read dozens upon dozens of books, articles, magazines, etc about screenwriting.  I've plotted out several different stories throughout the years.  I enjoy coming up with the ideas and plotting them out into outlines and/or beatsheets, but when it comes to the actual writing of the screenplay I lose interest. I really enjoy what I'm doing with the story construction, but I wonder if this hobby can become something else. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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