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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:44 PM
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I can't write for shit.
Seriously.... I'm trying to bang-out a treatment for a screenplay, and seven pages in, it completely blows.

So I'm listening to Black Flag.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:44 PM
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1. When do you have to have it done by?
:shrug:
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:46 PM
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2. Before I die.
This isn't a work thing, it's for a side-project I want to pitch for myself.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:50 PM
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6. Oh, it's exactly like my writing, then.
At least you're not on a deadline. Sleep on it...ideas come at the weirdest moments. I carry a little notepad with me at all times so I can jot stuff down. :shrug:
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:48 PM
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3. I'd try to help inspire you
but you never get my messages :D
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:51 PM
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7. I always get your messages, don't i?
Whachoo talkin' 'bout?

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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 10:13 PM
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13. Nine times outta ten
it tells me that it couldn't deliver the message to you :\

Time to get trillan, my friend :D
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 10:17 PM
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14. Meh, you know I hate all that IM stuff.
Give me two tin cans and a string, and I'm a happy man.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 10:17 PM
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15. Gimmie your stringcolour and I'll give you a jingle
:D
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:49 PM
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4. Good luck from a fellow writer!
:hi:
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:50 PM
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5. Rise Above
:thumbsup:
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:52 PM
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8. That's playing in the opening scene...
Rise Above.

As sung by a 40 year old advertising rep stuck in an immobile morning rush-hour jam.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:55 PM
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9. Now that sounds good!
let me know how it turns out..
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:56 PM
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10. Wrong. Allow yourself a really, really shitty first draft.
Edited on Sat Apr-15-06 09:57 PM by Rabrrrrrr
Words of genius from Anne Lamott. Believe it, embrace it, and live by it.

The first priority is simply to get the goddamn thing written, no matter how stupidly shitty it is, then go fix it, which is a hell of a lot easier than trying to write it perfect the first time.

Allow yourself a really, really shitty first draft.

I've been writing that way for years, and believe me, it works wonders.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 09:56 PM
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11. work on your metre
When a poet uses metre subtly, you can't tell,
its really a joy to hear the rhyme ripple and seethe,
coincidence of odd soundings that words spell,
a way for us to conceive, a way for hamlet to grieve.

Then when you're working your next line,
your subconscious rhyming mind will achieve,
a minor rhythmic impulse behind time,
that the stage gets us all to believe.

when you want to emphasize,
speaking words alive,
mixed up metres thrive.

As if one would ever think to ask.

Metre changeups in shakespeare's divine grasp.
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YouthInAsia Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 10:01 PM
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12. love black flag. What albu are you listening to?
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 10:18 PM
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16. DAMAGED
notice the all-caps.
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YouthInAsia Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 10:19 PM
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17. I've always been partial to "My War"
But all their albums are great.
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 10:22 PM
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18. Then work out a better way of writing, it sounds like the method
you're trying to adhere too isn't your style. Have you tried writing incidents from the middle, planning an overview, writing all sorts of stuff that won't be in it to get a feel for your characters? There are many ways of writing and it sounds like you've not found yours yet.
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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-15-06 10:23 PM
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19. Don't write it..
let the characters write it.
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