TheBanyanTree: And so it begins...

[R J Fernalld]

Way to go Stew.

I am still working on my novel, and finally think (I say 'think' cuz I'm simply not sure) I am into the home stretch. Seem like each time I focus on the thing I have medical issues LOL, but have decided not to let it stop me.

At the moment I am not able to use my right hand....I can't do more than legibly write my name and do a small bit of typing. So, I bought a cassette recorder, got a friend to type for me and I am embarking on a new route to get the story out. It is done, and I am doing a massive rewrite.

If you have something to write, don't let anything stop you, that's my promise to myself. If you have something to write, do it. You sound to me from your post you are determined and that is good.

I agree about that software. Sounds to buggy for me, I have trouble enough with words sometimes as it is LOL.

Way to go Stew.

RJ Fernalld



>From: Stew Young <youngmarketing at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/02/19 Mon PM 04:45:44 CST
>To: thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com
>Subject: TheBanyanTree: And so it begins...

>So it begins.
>
>I'm new here. Some of you may know of me through the writings of one of your
>frequent contributors. Some of you don't know me at all. That works, cause I
>don't know much about y'all either.
>
>So I feel on I'm on the verge of a break through. Or maybe a break down.
>Nah, definitely a break through. (I've been through breakdowns before, they
>are messy and it's hard to reassemble all he pieces while crying.)
>
>I was 50 pages in my movie script when I realized I didn't have a main
>character. If you've ever written a movie script, you know this is bad form.
>(And, while we all like to complain about how formulaic Hollywood has
>become, it's a fact that if scripts don't follow a particular form, they
>don't get sold and made into movies.) In your traditional "Dude With a
>Problem" type script, the main character is introduced by page 10 – and it's
>better if he/she is introduced by page 5. I was on page 50. You see the
>problem.
>
>So I'm starting off from square one.
>
>See, the big problem is, I really only have one scene in mind in this movie.
>But it's a scene I've had in mind for 5 or 6 years now. And trying to get to
>that scene has been a bugaboo. Maybe the problem is one scene just isn't
>good enough for a fully story. Maybe I should go and try some other story.
>But then I feel that the overall story I have developed for this scene is in
>fact a good one.
>
>I purchased a book a month or so ago titled, "Save the Cat: The Last Book on
>Scriptwriting You'll Ever Need." After I started reading the book, I found
>that there's a companion software piece available. This software helps you
>break your movie down into the three act structure, and then breaks those
>acts down into 40 different "beats". And voila, instant movie – just add
>words.
>
>It ain't that simple.
>
>For one thing, this is version 1.00 of the software. Anybody with software
>experience will tell you to avoid version x.00 of any piece of software. I'm
>not saying that this program is buggy, but, well, if architects built
>buildings the way programmers wrote software; civilization would be doomed
>by the site of the first woodpecker. It's not that it's that buggy
it's just
>cumbersome and non standard. For the first time since using a GUI, the
>"print" command isn't under file. It's under
 hell, I don't remember, but
>it's not where it should be.
>
>So, here I begin – again. And we'll see if the fates smile on this attempt
>at creating this story.
>
>
>Stew
>
>
>--


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