Writing a little something...no...a big screenplay, finally!

Mar 28, 2008 - 16:18 PM PST

So it's been a while since I wrote my excited entry detailing how I was finally beginning to write something that felt like would be a little something great. Well. It's been a while since I wrote anything on that, until today. I've figured out that the reason I do this stops and starts in my writing is because I'm a non-linear thinker and I write in these stops and starts that never amount to anything. And I've always beat myself up for it and told myself that someday I would teach myself or learn somehow to write in a linear way because that must be what successful writers do. Well it's taken me until just right NOW to realize that I was being very small-minded and beating myself up for something that is probably just my individual writing style.

And another thing I realized is that these little "non-linear" stops and starts I've been writing forever actually aren't all that non-linear. Especially over the last year or so. My stops and starts actually relate to each other in a shockingly linear way. So there you go. I just wrote about 7 pages of a screenplay to add onto another 10 pages of another screenplay to add onto 15 pages of an essay that I can adapt into that screenplay. Plus all the little notes of camera shots and angles I've had floating around in my imagination for years. And all the songs I've written down and placed on my iTunes as "movie appropriate." They all fit together because I've been thinking for years on this screenplay in the back of my mind and in these stops and starts that never seemed to be an actual screenplay! Sounds crazy and like I said "it sounds non-linear" but it must be the way that works for me and I just need to go with the flow of my non-linear-but-not-so-non-linear-thought-process.

A complicated entry to describe what was a very non-complicated and amazing revelation that I hope really helps me write my something. Oh, and I'm going to stop being annoying and calling my writing "my something", since it now feels substantial with those pieces all fitting together, I will now call it "my screenplay." Yeah!! That makes me so happy you have no idea! Hopefully my next entry I will have continued on with my screenplay and have more to share.

Happy writing!