Sunday, April 4, 2010
Script Frenzy April 2010 - Day Four
8:31 PM | 
Posted by
alkaline-kiwi |
Well I was a bad writer and didn't even touch my script yesterday though I did make a few notes about characters and where I wanted the story to go.
I have been thinking about the reasons why I have been struggling so much with writing a script and I have come to the conclusion that maybe it isn't script writing that I am struggling with but this script in particular.
One of the reasons is that I can't just fly through it like I did with NaNoWriMo, writing anything that came to mind. Of course with my NaNoWriMo project I did a bit more planning and had an idea of where things were going to end up. Now I know that an outline is important for this but when I have sat down to write it I can see the beginning and the end, plus some of the stuff that happens on the way but tying it all together baffles me.
Also the script I am working on is not really anything like the graphic novels and comics that I have enjoyed reading. Some of my favourite comics are fairly edgy and for a mature audience, my script and plans for it are very tame by comparison.
Then probably the most important one is that I'm finding it hard to get to know and ultimately like my characters. Zeke and Skeeter were a lot of fun to write in my NaNoWriMo as supporting characters - Zeke was the wise mentor who always had a lot of good advice and I had a lot of fun writing Skeeter even though he didn't feature as much as Zeke. Writing them now in this prequel they don't seem as interesting to me.
So what I am I going to do, considering that I am a couple of days behind with my page count already? Well I have decided to start another script, the one that I was intending to write before I thought to write my current script. It will be another graphic novel script but I have a far clearer idea for it and the main character is one that has been around in my head (but rarely in written form) for 8 years now.
I have been thinking about the reasons why I have been struggling so much with writing a script and I have come to the conclusion that maybe it isn't script writing that I am struggling with but this script in particular.
One of the reasons is that I can't just fly through it like I did with NaNoWriMo, writing anything that came to mind. Of course with my NaNoWriMo project I did a bit more planning and had an idea of where things were going to end up. Now I know that an outline is important for this but when I have sat down to write it I can see the beginning and the end, plus some of the stuff that happens on the way but tying it all together baffles me.
Also the script I am working on is not really anything like the graphic novels and comics that I have enjoyed reading. Some of my favourite comics are fairly edgy and for a mature audience, my script and plans for it are very tame by comparison.
Then probably the most important one is that I'm finding it hard to get to know and ultimately like my characters. Zeke and Skeeter were a lot of fun to write in my NaNoWriMo as supporting characters - Zeke was the wise mentor who always had a lot of good advice and I had a lot of fun writing Skeeter even though he didn't feature as much as Zeke. Writing them now in this prequel they don't seem as interesting to me.
So what I am I going to do, considering that I am a couple of days behind with my page count already? Well I have decided to start another script, the one that I was intending to write before I thought to write my current script. It will be another graphic novel script but I have a far clearer idea for it and the main character is one that has been around in my head (but rarely in written form) for 8 years now.
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