Script Nurse Forum
February 07, 2012, 08:22:28 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length

News: YOU MUST REGISTER in order to post and use the CHAT ROOM. It's FREE, of course, but necessary. MAIN SITE returns you to the main Script Nurse website and HOME brings you back to the top of the forums. CHAT ROOM access is automatic once you've registered.

THIS FORUM IS ABOUT SCREENWRITING. It has nothing to do with nursing, health care, nursing jobs, medicine or scripting language programming. Posts with these subjects are IMMEDIATELY deleted and the user who posted the topic is permanently banned.
 

  MAIN SITE   Home   Help Search Login Register  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: hoow do u write about a psychological problem  (Read 2880 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
ScriptNurse
Head Nurse
Private Coach
Screenwriter-Producer
*
Posts: 1322


Head Nurse


View Profile
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2007, 07:32:24 AM »

It is expected that screenwriters have a command of the English language. Words are your tools to be used like knives to carve out visual images so filmmakers can visualize what is to be seen on the screen. I call it wordsmithing. Always remember that a script is not a literary form in the traditional sense, but a unique set of instructions to guide a filmmaker in making a film. "Choose wisely."
Logged

Don Bledsoe
Head Nurse
Write better ... right now!
Good scripts are those that get bought.
Want to write screenplays? READ SCREENPLAYS!
Write it right and they'll say it right!
NO SPEEDBUMPS!
Want control? GO TO FILM SCHOOL!
LloJo
Screenwriter-Director
****
Posts: 139


The Old Man


View Profile
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2007, 11:07:19 PM »

Al and Don have hit the mark with their advice. Writing, in any of its many forms, is therapeutic. Write the story. Read it. Re-write it. Have someone else read it. Listen to what they have to say. Re-write it again. Remember, the story's the thing. If it left an impression on you, it will generate an audience. Just don't fall in love with the first draft. There is no writing, only re-writing.
May I add, screenplays do not lend themselves to abreviations. (Such as "u" for you) Readers will also shy away from scripts that contain misspellings (Such as hoow) and incorrect punctuation.
Now, go write your story!
Logged

"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin." Morgan Freeman as "RED," in The Shawshank Redemption.
uncle_al
Screenwriter-Producer
*****
Posts: 632



View Profile
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2007, 08:26:15 PM »

A few further thoughts... worth everything you paid for them.

Tell yourself the story as though describing it to someone else.
Then ask yourself, "Would I pay <insert current ticket price here> to see this at the movies?"
If the answer is no, then it probably wouldn't be worth writing as a screenplay.

In that case, you might consider working on it as a piece of fiction (anything from short-short story up to meganovel), as a stage play (one-acts work better here), or as a palate-clearing rant that sees nothing else besides the inside of a desk drawer. 

Hey, I write because I don't know how not to, but even I know better than to try to sell some formless, inchoate venting as writing. 

Except maybe to The New Yorker...


Al Bouchard
Logged

Now FORTIFIED with BLOG!
http://alexanderfilmworks.wordpress.com/ NEW SITE!

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
--Isaac Asimov
uncle_al
Screenwriter-Producer
*****
Posts: 632



View Profile
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2007, 08:46:58 PM »

From my own point of view (frequently twisted, often actually sprained):

Don is quite right. 
  • Write it down in some sort of narrative form.
  • See if there's a story there.
  • See if that story can make a movie.

Don't forget:

If it doesn't have to involve real, identifiable people, then meld, chop/change, and fictionalize.  (It's simpler.)

Good luck, and write well!

Al Bouchard
Logged

Now FORTIFIED with BLOG!
http://alexanderfilmworks.wordpress.com/ NEW SITE!

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
--Isaac Asimov
ScriptNurse
Head Nurse
Private Coach
Screenwriter-Producer
*
Posts: 1322


Head Nurse


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2006, 06:40:55 AM »

Without any details, it'll be difficult, but more often than not I've always heard that writing about events in one's past is helpful in resolving issues and putting them in perspective. Many novels are based on this and many screenplays are borne of events in the writer's own life. In other words, it might be good for you.

I would recommend that you write a story about it all first and THEN decide if it's something appropriate for a screenplay.
Logged

Don Bledsoe
Head Nurse
Write better ... right now!
Good scripts are those that get bought.
Want to write screenplays? READ SCREENPLAYS!
Write it right and they'll say it right!
NO SPEEDBUMPS!
Want control? GO TO FILM SCHOOL!
traderman
New Screenwriter
*
Posts: 1


View Profile
« on: November 08, 2006, 02:09:15 AM »

how do u write a script about something that hapened to u long time ago and too personal. i once had a dream about a cousin who visited me and want to write a script about it. can someone help me with advise cause while writing it, it might affect me psychologically?
Logged
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  


Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.16 | SMF © 2011, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!

Bad Behavior has blocked 159 access attempts in the last 7 days.