Tag: Filmmaking
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NaNoWriMo 2018 – Day 12
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…
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Day 11 of NaNoWriMo
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…
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NaNoWriMo 2018 – Day 10
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…
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NaNoWriMo 2018 – Day 9
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…
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NaNoWriMo 2018 – Day 3
I guess I should have spent at least a week preparing for NanoWrimo. Day 3 was more of the same as Day 1 & Day 2. I’m in the middle of Day 4 and it is also feeling like the previous 3 days. My paper notebook is almost ready, my Scrivener document is all prepped…
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NANOWRIMO 2018 – DAY 2
When I started this script I’m working on I was writing it in a different application than the one I want to work with now. I want to write the rest of it in Scrivener. So instead of just trying to import the script file into Scrivener I am retyping what I have done in…
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NANOWRIMO 2018
I am not a novelist but I am going to jump on the Nanowrimo bandwagon this year. I am going to use the month of daily writing to finish or get as close as I can to finishing a feature length screenplay that has been simmering for a few years. I will give more details…