Write Club Part II

This weekend is a big one in terms of my screenwriting progress.  I have gained some interest in a script I wrote a few months ago and have been asked to send my next draft to him/them.  I went over it last week, changing some scenes around and cutting out some exposition to slim down the entire screenplay from 103 pages to 99 pages.  This weekend, in extreme isolation, I will work on a full draft revision with major overhauls in hopes of having my next draft ready in about 7-10 days from now.

And of course, this is the part of screenwriting I hate..which kind of means I'm not really a screenwriter, right?  I don't do well with analyzing...anything.  I'm too scatterbrained and dare I say, creative minded for that.  Ah, but one can learn to be analytical to some extent, so I won't use that entire left vs right brain argument. Time to exorcise all inborn excuses and get to work.

Time to shit or get off the pot, really.

Insidious (2011) A Review

Insidious is a BANG! film that BOOM! does a decent SCREAM! job unnerving SLAM! you through constant SCREECH! use of loud ROAR! jump scares.... END CREDITS!

Read more at Suite101: Insidious (2011) http://www.suite101.com/content/insidious-2011-a364081#ixzz1IhU35mGS

Devil (2010) -Review

Here's a twist- a M. Night Shyamalan movie that doesn't feel like it's 3 hours long!

Read more at Suite101: Devil (2010) http://www.suite101.com/content/devil-2010-a360094#ixzz1H4vA2j4T

My Soul to Take (2010)- Review

A serial killer, the “the Riverton ripper”, swore to return and slay the seven children born on the night he died. Now 16 years later, someone is chasing down those children, but is it the ripper? The seven, as their known, will find out, even if they appear as disinterested as the audience.

Read more at Suite101: My Soul to Take (2010) http://www.suite101.com/content/my-soul-to-take-2010-a358031#ixzz1GaXH7g2t

Shock Waves (1977)

There are plenty of films that have grand ideas which aren't fully formulated, and for that reason, they result in disappointment. Rarely has there been a better example of this in the horror genre than with Shock Waves.

Read more at Suite101: Shock Waves (1977) http://www.suite101.com/content/shock-waves-1977-a356557#ixzz1GEkXORhP

Waiting for the Sun is Done!

And thankfully, it seems to retain the humor I originally intended it to.  The problem is sometimes I begin a screenplay with this busting at the seams burst of idea energies, only to use my analytical skills to dampen it down.  This time, I went wild with my imagination, sketching out the possible path of scenes in outline form. I chose the best one and placed it into the script.  This worked for a few reasons, one being the outline helps me from aimlessly wandering around for 5 or 10 pages, and two, by doing this, it's almost like doing a partial rewrite on the fly.  And third, this allowed me to focus in on the humor of the situations within each scene, instead of the overall screenplay.

By doing this, I feel it's consistently funnier than anything I've written.  Sure, I had screenplays that were hysterical in spots, those spots I deemed needed to be so.  There were too many peaks and valleys. But with this one, I have definite peaks of humor, and the dips never bog down so far as to be unfunny.

Now to sit back and let it stew for a couple of weeks...then tear it up again.