filmmaker • photographer
Today's update will be very short. Yesterday was a pretty slow writing day. I was able to get a little bit of writing done on my phone which brings me to today's subject, using the smartphone for writing. I would not want to write a full screenplay or novel on a phone but there's no …
Day 12 of NaNoWriMo has come and gone. During the work week I have 2 times of the day to write, in the early morning and at night before bed. I first have to block this time out for writing and then I have to be ready to write when I do sit down in …
This will be a shorter update than usual but I want to try to keep these daily entries going. One thing that's been on my mind lately is the fact that a screenplay is meant to be made into a film. It is the roadmap for a story. This is not new discovery. We all …
Day 10 of Nanowrimo went well. It's always nice to have more time on the weekend to write. I can have a morning session take a break for a good part of the day and then come back to it later. Yesterday I talked about the challenge of the second act of a screenplay. Today …
Day 9 of NanoWrimo. I made some good progress but I'm hoping this weekend I'm able to tackle larger chunks of the script. It seems common for screenwriters to have struggles with the second act of a screenplay and I'm no exception. I buy into the idea of second acts often being split up. With …
NaNoWrimo Day 8. As I've been making my way through the script I've been learning and exploring Scrivener a bit more. The more I learn about it the more I love it. Scrivener strikes the perfect balance of complexity and simplicity. The way it does this is by making it very customizable, whether that's within …
NaNoWriMo 2018 - Day 7 Day 7 went well. One of the things I spent time on was character details. I have had most of the details about the characters figured out a long time ago but I still have much work to do in this area. Once I have the image of the main …
Day 6 of Nanowrimo wasn't that productive. I had some wisdom teeth pulled in the morning so I didn't get in as much writing in as I would have liked. I did write a little bit at least and that's really my main goal for this month. To at least write a little bit each …
I'm wrapping up Day 5 of Nanowrimo 2018 feeling a little overwhelmed yet excited. I still feel like I'm at the base of this mountain that is this screenplay. My excitement comes from the fact that after all of these years of being in and out of this story my love for it has not …
Day 4 of Nanowrimo was productive. I made good progress on the script and my notebook is coming along nicely. On a side note, I have decided I will use my laptop to write when I'm in the situation to do so but will use my iPad Pro for much of the writing. Writing on …
