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RE: Repost:The Kid That Became A Guy: An Autobiography Of Sorts Part I
Thank you... after rereading this it seems a bit unpolished. I guess I'm improving lol!
Thank you... after rereading this it seems a bit unpolished. I guess I'm improving lol!
We all grow. I've been scared to go back to my first script and do cleaning for years now. I think it is getting to be time though. It received some interest when I did the first reading and served as the basis for the screenplay I just blogged about here.
Coming from an academic background, I had very little experience writing dialogue. I started on a murder mystery (I was shooting for a film noir milieu) that sucked so bad I quit after about 4-5 chapters.
I had a terrible problem with Insomnia when I was really young. My mind would just start wandering like crazy when my parents turned the lights out. I started daydreaming one night to organize these thoughts. This was the best training ground for writing dialogue. I would create hundreds of characters in my mind in the course of a night and after doing this for an hour or two I would wake up realizing I had been dreaming. A wonderful side effect was that nightmares became incredibly rare.
My mind still goes like crazy when the lights go out. I'm up and down half the night scribbling down ideas for my stories.
Try daydreaming yourself to sleep. I have found it to be the most amazing thing for my storytelling. sometimes I can write a whole scene or two or ten before I am in dream land. Then I wake up and decide to write it down or I decide to continue it as a dream.
When you're my age, you'll find that sleep is a luxury. I'm up every hour or so pissing!
lol I'll spare
I hate to break it to ya... But NO, you won't! We all go through it (unless you die at 40)