Comments on: Write a Screenplay in One Month: Week Zero http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:02:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jaden http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-18503 Jaden Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:26:42 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-18503 Chris Nand -- I offer screenwriting services. I will email you directly. Steve Shannon -- People in Hollywood are full of shit, especially with their stories of rapid and easy success or rise to fame. Anything worth doing is hard work. I am like you, thousands of pages written and trashed, and that is also how all successful screenwriters are as well. Don't rush yourself, but do give yourself some deadlines to keep you moving forward. When the time and the script are right, you will know it. You will have to learn technical formatting though if you ever want to sell a script, otherwise, you can just make the movie yourself with your messy script. Anthony DeLoach -- Congratulations on your 2 scripts! That is no easy feat. Minnesota Bound -- Yes, I know the Blockbuster recurring nightmare, it is astounding how much crap is made and the millions of dollars spent on making it! Am so glad to hear you are working on your own ideas. If your script made you laugh much later, that is a great sign. Most of my old stuff makes me want to croak, but there are a few things that blow me away or make me laugh still, those are the gems I pull back out too. Karen Swim & Sizzling Popcorn -- Been a while now, you two ever get to working on the scripts? Chris Nand — I offer screenwriting services. I will email you directly.

Steve Shannon — People in Hollywood are full of shit, especially with their stories of rapid and easy success or rise to fame. Anything worth doing is hard work. I am like you, thousands of pages written and trashed, and that is also how all successful screenwriters are as well. Don’t rush yourself, but do give yourself some deadlines to keep you moving forward. When the time and the script are right, you will know it. You will have to learn technical formatting though if you ever want to sell a script, otherwise, you can just make the movie yourself with your messy script.

Anthony DeLoach — Congratulations on your 2 scripts! That is no easy feat.

Minnesota Bound — Yes, I know the Blockbuster recurring nightmare, it is astounding how much crap is made and the millions of dollars spent on making it! Am so glad to hear you are working on your own ideas. If your script made you laugh much later, that is a great sign. Most of my old stuff makes me want to croak, but there are a few things that blow me away or make me laugh still, those are the gems I pull back out too.

Karen Swim & Sizzling Popcorn — Been a while now, you two ever get to working on the scripts?

]]> By: Chris Nand http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-18440 Chris Nand Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:47:48 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-18440 Please can you advise me how to contacr a screenwriter in Hollywood to polish up dialogue and screenplay for a script that I have written My story also unfolds in the slums of Bombay but has more drama then the movie: SLUM DOG MILLIONAIR. Kind regards Chris Nand Please can you advise me how to contacr a screenwriter in Hollywood to polish up dialogue and screenplay for a script that I have written

My story also unfolds in the slums of Bombay but has more drama then the movie: SLUM DOG MILLIONAIR.

Kind regards

Chris Nand

]]> By: steven shannon http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-12464 steven shannon Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:44:55 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-12464 i read things like, john hughes wrote breakfast club in 2 days. it's probably true, but i'm sure the process in his mind took years. quotes like this give me hope. i've written so many pages over the years, only to trash them. i'll write when i'm ready. i haven't forgotten a damned thing i trashed. i just won't write til i get it right in my mind. i'm clearly not a technical person. big fucking deal. i look at the shit that makes it to the screen now. "puke". any moron with a pencil can write a screenplay. i'm a frist class moron and i'll have mine. i read things like, john hughes wrote breakfast club in 2 days. it’s probably true, but i’m sure the process in his mind took years. quotes like this give me hope. i’ve written so many pages over the years, only to trash them. i’ll write when i’m ready. i haven’t forgotten a damned thing i trashed. i just won’t write til i get it right in my mind. i’m clearly not a technical person. big fucking deal. i look at the shit that makes it to the screen now. “puke”. any moron with a pencil can write a screenplay. i’m a frist class moron and i’ll have mine.

]]> By: Anthony DeLoach http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-11033 Anthony DeLoach Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:28:28 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-11033 I am really interested in screenplay writing. I already written two screenplays. I am really interested in screenplay writing. I already written two screenplays.

]]> By: Minnesota Bound http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-2543 Minnesota Bound Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:05:49 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-2543 I started writing a screenplay last year out of complete boredome with my visit to Blockbuster. As I walked past bad movie after bad movie I said, WTF, I can do this. In about a week I had 39 pages of scenes and perhaps a genious movie in the works. I put it away and left it on a thumbdrive and just forgot about it all summer. Well today I looked at it for the first time and read what I had done last spring, I still laughed at my own BS. I'm picking it up and including more real life stuff that's happened or witnessed that can feed this. Any good news on your script from August I started writing a screenplay last year out of complete boredome with my visit to Blockbuster. As I walked past bad movie after bad movie I said, WTF, I can do this. In about a week I had 39 pages of scenes and perhaps a genious movie in the works. I put it away and left it on a thumbdrive and just forgot about it all summer. Well today I looked at it for the first time and read what I had done last spring, I still laughed at my own BS. I’m picking it up and including more real life stuff that’s happened or witnessed that can feed this.

Any good news on your script from August

]]> By: Interview with Muzz, Winner of SFH ‘Write a Screenplay in One Month’ Competition : http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-1662 Interview with Muzz, Winner of SFH ‘Write a Screenplay in One Month’ Competition : Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:37:04 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-1662 [...] a minimum of 90 pages within a one month period, Muzz won the Screenwriting for Hollywood competition of August, [...] [...] a minimum of 90 pages within a one month period, Muzz won the Screenwriting for Hollywood competition of August, [...]

]]> By: Write a Screenplay in One Month: Week Three : http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-904 Write a Screenplay in One Month: Week Three : Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:59:10 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-904 [...] Week Zero [...] [...] Week Zero [...]

]]> By: Write a Screenplay in One Month: Week Two : http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-850 Write a Screenplay in One Month: Week Two : Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:09:59 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-850 [...] Week Zero [...] [...] Week Zero [...]

]]> By: Write a Screenplay in One Month: Week One : http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-823 Write a Screenplay in One Month: Week One : Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:14:52 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-823 [...] Week Zero was the time to prepare. [...] [...] Week Zero was the time to prepare. [...]

]]> By: Karen Swim http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero/comment-page-1#comment-811 Karen Swim Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:19:38 +0000 http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/write-a-screenplay-in-one-month-week-zero#comment-811 Jaden, the whole time I've been reading your blog and loving your work, I would think "it's so cool to be able to do that and to want to do it." Today, when I saw Screenwriting for Hollywood, I remembered that I have that book and several others. In my 20s I wanted to write a screenplay, long before I was writing for a living. I had buried it so deep it never surfaced in my memory. Maybe, just maybe I'll give this challenge a shot. Thanks Jaden! Jaden, the whole time I’ve been reading your blog and loving your work, I would think “it’s so cool to be able to do that and to want to do it.” Today, when I saw Screenwriting for Hollywood, I remembered that I have that book and several others. In my 20s I wanted to write a screenplay, long before I was writing for a living. I had buried it so deep it never surfaced in my memory. Maybe, just maybe I’ll give this challenge a shot. Thanks Jaden!

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