Hello to everybody

[FlickTick]

Wonderful dream to write a screenplay.
I hope you find encouragement here.

[uncle_al]

You certainly will.

I think it was Isaac Asimov who said something about the first quarter million words or so a writer puts down are the "practice shots", not meant for publication.  Don's three to five scripts is about the same order of reality, I'd say.

Welcome here, and welcome to the fraternity of fried synapses.  Any number can play.

Cheers!

Al B.

[ScriptNurse]

The deception lies in the simplicity of having only visual description and spoken words to work with.

Screenwriting, I've discovered, is an entirely different animal. In my case, it's the most difficult writing I've ever attempted.

A published playright I worked with said the same thing. There's a certain "knack" to the style. For many new writers, it takes 3-5 scripts to get into the groove of screenwriting. Don't give up, you'll get there.

[Shindig]

Guns, eh?  Welcome.

[Chuck58]

from New Mexico. Fairly new to screenplay writing. I've been battling with a script for the past month and finally have managed twenty-one pages.

I use Movie Magic 2000 and am very happy with it. I just wish it would do the writing for me.

I'm a retired police officer, upper *ahem* middle aged now, and have been engaged in fictional novel (mystery with supernatural twists) and short story writing since my retirement in 1993, with three novels and a few short stories published. Screenwriting, I've discovered, is an entirely different animal. In my case, it's the most difficult writing I've ever attempted.

My hobbies, handgun and rifle competition, prowling ghost towns and cavalry forts, anything related to the Old West or Civil War, fishing, hunting, exercise (yeah, it's a hobby), and beta testing computer security software.