Welcome back! Next Meeting 7th Sep 7pm

Time to shake the sand out of your typewriters and word processors and put on your critique jumper and scarf – Summer break\’s over, and Derbyshire Scriptwriters will be meeting up again at Derby Library\’s meeting room on the Strand at 7pm, Tuesday 7th September – see you there!

The end of the beginning…

Just a quick note to thank the DSW members who were at the crit session for my short screenplay last night – lots of positives, lots of things to think over and rewrite, and a challenge I didn\’t expect…

This is what it\’s all about – sharing your work with other writers to help you make it better – brilliant stuff.

Have a great summer, and see you in September!

July Meeting; this Tuesday 6July, 7pm – 9pm

It\’s our last meeting before the summer break and we\’ll be critting Andy\’s short film screenplay \’Sweet Dreams\’ – if you\’re a member, the script is already in the members section of DerbyshireScriptwriters.com.

If you\’re interested in coming along, drop us an email:
joinus@derbyshirescriptwriters.com
or call in and see us on Tuesday at Derby Library\’s meeting room on The Strand – see how to get there on this post.

One egg or two?

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 big stuff that you\’ve not seen for whatever reason.

So I could do more (you can always do more) but I won\’t. I\’ve uploaded it to the members page of our website, www.derbyshirescriptwriters.com, and I\’ll try not to think about adding another Zeppelin chase sequence until my crit session next Tuesday – Andy.

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 – so, I\’ll give it a while to rest, and look at it with slightly more objective eyes in a few days – Andy.

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 got a notebook full of them- at some point they\’ll come in handy).
It also means my brain can put all it\’s effort into telling the story, rather remembering how the plot unfolds after the butler walks in with the… well, that would be telling.
Roll on completing first draft – Andy.

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 at the point at which I should have been bringing it to life on the page.
So today, it may not have a structure, an ending, or even a title – but it now has a deadline – and an audience ready to read it.
I\’ll keep you posted as I go along – the dishes will have to wait for a bit – Andy.