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Lando2
Jan 16, 2010

Turns out just hunks
Hey I was wondering what everyone's work format is like? Like what you do to get ready, where you write, how you form ideas and structure and things like that.

I am a total wanna be writer but I really don't know where to start. I eventually want to have my stuff made into movies but I just don't have the motivation behind my writing. I have tons of ideas just jotted down on paper or on my ipod and they sound pretty cool when I tell them to others (Or watch them in my head) but when they ask "What happens next?" I just say, "What do you mean? I don't know, hollywood will do the rest right?" and I get left alone to my corner.

This is what I have in my head: take a story or short and build a character, give him a love interest and an obstacle/opponent/dilemma. Begin writing story arc and then finish with a "The End"

Is this right?

Also, how long does it take you to finish a draft before you start cutting it down or adding things? I have enough material to write a nice short film but idk how much time I should devote to writing per day. Should I just sit down, turn everything off and focus on my empty word document or just add to it throughout the day here and there?

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Lando2
Jan 16, 2010

Turns out just hunks
Yea definetly, I've got 2 sitting on my computer just for reference and things like that.

Lando2
Jan 16, 2010

Turns out just hunks

gredgie posted:

If someone wanted to attempt a re-telling of a past work, modernizing it for example, would the goal be to:

1) Merely refresh the work, updating the context to make it easier to grasp for the modern demographic?
or
2) Add something new along with it, in an 'If it's not broken, don't fix it,' sense?

(or both)

See: The 'Sherlock' BBC series

Nothing new needs to be added if it was a successful first telling, so just a modernization can really make it new again. Option 1.

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