My screenwriting client, Kimberly Fisher, kicks it:
1. Chicago Screenplay Awards ‘Wood’ was Officially Selected’
2. 4th Dimension Independent Film Festival ‘Wood’ was selected as ‘Finalist’ in the ‘Best Actor’ Category
3. Atlanta International Screenplay Awards ‘Wood’ was selected as ‘Semi Finalist’
4. Beyond the Curve International Film Festival ‘Girl On Fire’ was ‘Officially Selected’
5. PageTurner Screenplays ‘WillPower’ was selected as ‘QuarterFinalist’
I am currently working on a short film script, but I’m unable to complete it. What should I do?
If you want to continue your career as a writer, then you need to go back into your script. Make sure your main character has a goal. Organize it so that you have a unifying theme, a main character, an antagonist (can be a person or a volcano or a radical political leader, etc.) or villain (in fiction, villains represent evil without any redeeming characteristics). The antagonist or villain must seek the same goal your main character is seeking. The difference between them is that the antagonist or villain represents a negative or evil way of doing it. Also, make sure you have a beginning, a middle and an end to your story. This doesn’t mean that it has to be in chronological order, just that you must have this in your script. Also, read your dialogue. Film is a visual medium, so you should strive to show in place of telling. Some dialogue can be changed to visuals in place of the dialogue. During this process, you will find that you will be able to complete your script with vim and vigor!!!
A favorite Zen story in which three men are
observing a flag fluttering in the breeze: One
man says, The flag is moving. The second
man says, The wind is moving. The third
man says, You are both wrong, it is your
mind that is moving.
If you look inside of yourself, you will see
the information you need to be successful.
This information contains everything you
need to be successful. The secret to
tapping into this information is contained
in The Zen of Writing.
How so, you ask?
Look inside of yourself and you will see
the answer. This is the secret to successful
writing and/or filmmaking. Look inside
of yourself and you will see the secret.
Why is it that Steven Spielberg is a
successful filmmaker? He has the ability
to look inside of himself and see the secret.
Why is Stephen King a successful novelist?
He has the ability to look inside of himself
and see the secret.
What do you seek when you write a letter,
or make a corporate video? Do you look
outside or inside of your mind and heart?
When you look inside of your mind and
heart you enhance your ability to see the
secret to being successful in your undertaking.
When you look outside of your mind and heart,
you have no ability to see the secret to being
successful.
What rings true in each one of us is our
ability to think and feel. When we tap
into those senses to write a screenplay
or make a film, we look inside of ourselves.
We see the secret to successfully writing the
screenplay or making a film successful.
You might ask, but I do that and I see
nothing. The reason you see nothing is
because you allow yourself to avoid seeing
the secret. You allow yourself to avoid seeing
the secret because you do not know how to
see the secret.
With The Zen of Writing, you will see the secret.
You need simply to contact me to learn how to
tap into that secret.
Peace, Light and Love,
The Zen of Writing