Got back to the script, and changed… some of it. Actually, not as much as I thought; I\’m pretty happy with the progress I\’ve made – and any more tinkering could be overegging the pudding. And the point of having work critiqued by the rest of the group is to help you concentrate on the …
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And rest…
Done the first draft – 20 pages of marvellous script. And now time to… leave it. I\’d actually completed the draft a couple of days ago, and couldn\’t resist tinkering with little bits of dialogue, that kind of thing. But I know if I keep doing it, I\’ll start doing more harm than good – …
Treatment done, dishes done.
It\’s a tough discipline, completing an treatment – you just want to get on with telling the brilliant story that\’s rolling through your head…But rolling up my sleeves and thoroughly planning the story means I don\’t get half way through and find out I\’ve wandered off the point and started to write another story (I\’ve …
Deadlines
Thanks to everyone who came to the June meeting – next month, we\’re critting something I\’ve written; or to tell the truth, am about to write…It\’s been an idea I\’ve been thinking about for a few months now, but the novel I\’m trying to rewrite, or doing the washing up, has taken up my time …
Meeting this Tuesday
Just a reminder that we\’ll be meeting from 7pm on Tuesday 1st June – looking forward to a great crit on Brian\’s stage play.
Take a seat
Just found out from Richard that our Guildhall plaque is up! We\’ve sponsored seat E10, so if someone is inspired by what they see on stage, they can get scribing and join us – looking forward to settling back into the DSW seat for a Guildhall production soon!
Meeting Up
Derbyshire Scriptwriters is open to anyone with an active interest in scriptwriting for screen, stage or radio – most meetings involve a critique of a member\’s work, which may be brand new, or something that has been reviewed by ourselves in the past. We meet on the first Tuesday of the month from 7pm to …
Act One, Scene One…
First post. Hmm. For me, there\’s a strange commitment to the first words on the page; and the notion of changing them, or deleting them, or ignoring them completely in the future feels a bit like an act of betrayal to the story idea you first had. Of course by the time you reach the …