Screenwriting, more than any other writing form, is bound to be collaborative. So here is a space for writers, screenwriters, graphic artists, comics addicts and movies lovers. A place for anyone with a strong drive and a creative soul. Feel free to contribute, suggest, comment. Let’s connect, share and grow together.
It’s been a while since mankind made to herself the gift of writing. We’ve been practising for a few thousand years now, and the land of stories has been explored, dramaturgy masters set a bunch of guidelines, and millions of men and women dedicated their souls and lives to this fascinating experience.
Then cinema came in and brought a mind blowing revolution to the art of writing. Deep to the core of what our brains are able to conceive and structure, modern screenplays represent the rare flowers of an art that is both entering complexity and challenging our perspectives.
I deeply believe that team writing is not only the only modern approach, but even more important, the more valuable working frame that will lead us to a whole new sense of what stories really are, and how to enlighten the creative, cognitive, mental and relational processes that give birth to them.
If movies are to connect more closely to the audience, we writers must enter a new era. Now is the time of opening new doors, pass new frontiers, make the process of writing a lively process of sharing.
Because we all know that stories are a gate to mysteries and secrets that none of us can fully apprehend alone.
Let’s invent new methods, regenerate storytelling and come up with stories for tomorrow. This is the purpose of this space.
Just Keep Going by Lisa Geichman Prosek
A recent conversation with some of my writer friends focused on our ongoing struggle to be at peace with our work…and with ourselves. If only we had more time to write. If only the subject matter would come more easily to us. If only we could get published or produced or even just optioned, then we’d have a sense of accomplishment and confidence as artists and be able to transcend our inner turmoil.
But would that really work?
Let the Magic Happen by Unk Screenwriter
I don’t do guest posts that often but Marc Omeyer is a stand-up guy and I don’t run into a whole hell of a lot of stand-up guys these days. So I’ve spent the last couple of weeks wondering what to write about… Didn’t want to do the same old, same old and recently, I’ve been doing so much THINKING about concepts that I wondered when was the last time anyone’s ever discussed the THINKING part about writing?
Silent English to Broken French by Andrea McNeill
Having grown up surrounded by Hollywood I am not easily star struck. I do however love any opportunity to speak French which is why my hands began to sweat the moment I saw Jean Dujardin, the star of THE ARTIST. I was in Hollywood at the iconic Grauman’s Chinese theatre with fellow screenwriter and colleague, Shane Clark attending American Film Institute’s annual AFIFest and U.S. premiere of THE ARTIST.
Tordre le cou aux idées reçues
Tiens c’est vendredi, et pour tout dire, j’avais la plume paresseuse. Mais finalement je vais surfer sur le soleil radieux qui baigne le jardin et dont les rayons pointent vers le pc dans un sous entendu qui en dit long. C’est entre le soleil et moi et il a gagné.
One story, four pitches
Everyone insists on how important a pitch is. But as for myself, I think every writer needs four different and necessary pitches.
First is the install pitch, the initial appeal of a conflicting contrast, a fresh situation around someone in relation with three essential entities : us, his world, and a vital necessity.
