Tag Archive: Screenwriting

Oct
02

Drawing the Screenplay

Inspired by Tim Clague’s post about how Marvel write their comics, I’ve been inspired to take hold of an idea that has been bubbling about in my head for some time now; namely that I should write the next draft of Return to Earth initally as a StoryBoard, and then, once I’m happy with the …

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Jul
03

Blue Beta

Image via Wikipedia Looks like I’m through to the quarter finals of the BlueCat screenwriting competition, with my slightly (well, very) dodgy first draft of The Trimes. Not sure how it’ll fare against the remaining 536, but it’s good to have got this far. On another note, in an astounding display of procrastination, I’ve been …

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Jun
18

Off to the Moon

Image via Wikipedia The new sci-fi moonbase film is now plotted out to my satisfaction (thanks to some useful feedback from Tom, who stopped me taking in a direction that it probably really didn’t want to go).  So now the writing begins.  I’m aiming at 90 pages, mainly to keep the story tight and the …

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