/swg/- Screenwriting General

You know how this works. Post questions, advice, or pitch your idea to a bunch of anonymous assholes so you can hate yourself even more.

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I'll start off with a piece of advice someone gave me once that sounded retarded at the time but ended up helping me get my first script written:

If you have confidence issues with your work and have a hard time writing because it's not as good as you want it to be, just pretend you're Max Landis.

Pretend you're a fucking retard with a completely overblown ego who thinks every word he puts on paper is amazing.

Just pretend to be that guy and write like he would. And just keep that mindset until you have a draft.

It sounds so fucking stupid, but it works.

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Ever read any scriptwriting books? Finish The Script, Syd Fields, anything like that?

I've written my first script, I've gone over it twice now and made corrections. I feel that it was too easy and needs another draft. What do?

>implying you'll ever sell your script
>implying you'll ever make a film out of it
>mfw there people that think they can just send their script in and it be bought without having connections
You'd have a better chance writing a novel and it getting a film adaption in 10 years.

My Rambo reboot script is almost done. He dies at the end lmao.

Writing a script called Baphomet right now. It'd be a one episode short. It follows a Catholic priest in 15th century Savanarolan Florence who is injured by a fall on his travels, takes refuge in an abandoned farm shed, and is tended to by a goat whom he increasingly believes to be Satan in disguise. It tracks the increasing tension between the two as the uncertainty of whether the goat is actually supernatural or just a helpful animal grows.

Thoughts?

>trusting Sup Forums with your ideas ever

Meh sounds like a subpar twilight zone episode, but it may work.

I'm currently writing two novels with ideas that I consider far better, with far better hooks. This is more of a throwaway idea for a short.

I guess it does sound kind of gimmicky.

about a ghost who is haunted by people

how do i gitgud at dialogue? my cringy autism shows heavily.

Probably is fine user, being your self is unique, unique is good

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What's wrong with your dialogue?

Be precise and to the point. Don't let it wander.

but a comedy

let's try this shit ONE MORE TIME

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Unfinished draft of a monologue for a bud of mine. He wrote the original for the stage so I had him talking to the camera here.

AHHH help I can't stop writing screenplays to satiate my fetishes aaaah!

Write for porn then

Give us a sample, perv.

a lot

Lot of overexplanation, famalama.

"on-the-nose" dialogue.
Tone it down. Think about how you can write all that in a way that people who listen get to put 1+1 together.

I might as well keep this thread bumped by posting my old disgusting shit.

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This one was something I wanted to do as an 80's throwback but never got around to. I really fucking hate the ending now.

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>just pretend you're Max Landis

Made me kek

I'd read it.

>syncing your script to pop music
>on the first page

lad...

You've been posting this page for months in these threads man it's not good at all post something else

I think it's been changed a little.

A man called Caracano Piroca walks in a bar. He sees a woman in a red dress, but the wasn't an ordinary woman, there was something in her.
The man approaches the woman and they talk for hours.

By the end of the night they decide to go to a motel
When they are about to have sex the man notices that the woman had a hand for a vagina. The man dies and the world ends.

such artism much modem

It's shit. Put it away, write something else, come back in a month and realize it's shit. Post it online, have people tell you it's shit. Rewrite. Etc.

Yeah I feel the same, but I need to film something and get going in that area.

I hope you guys outline and plan shit instead of just pantsing it.

I wrote a timeline for mine, does that count?

sure I do the index card thing and everything is color coded.