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Day 2 Assignments
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Jeffrey Alan Chase’s High Speed Writing Rules
My vision: I am an “A” list writer who is known for high concept ideas, great execution, a string of successful movies and is always ready to share his knowledge and do what he can to help another writer on the way up.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: that it forces me to concentrate on writing FAST instead of writing and then stopping to edit over and over. It’s a hard habit to break but I’m empowering myself to enjoy the challenge!
Title: Shards
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Logline: A woman with no childhood memory is involved in a cat and mouse game with a cunning hypnotist not knowing the man is responsible for both her amnesia and the death of her treasure hunter father.
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Bobby’s High Speed Writing Rules
MY VISION: A writing life that is mine to do with as I please. Independently wealthy, always creatively engaged, sought after, and utterly fulfilled.
Title: JASON VS THE ZOMBIES
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Concept: A tortured, aspiring serial killer has to join forces with the bullies that were his intended victims when the cabin they’re partying in is attacked by zombies from a nearby Civil War graveyard.
HOW IT WENT: No problems. I’m all for “writing shit” – all sorts of things that need to be fixed here, but who cares. Not the job.
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Tom’s High Speed Writing Rules
Vision: Working with producers I’m quick to suggest clever alternatives for a project.
Doing this assignment, I got better at adding lively gems to the scene.
Title: ET SEEDS
Genre: Drama with Thriller elements
Concept: Extraterrestrial DNA upgrades the population of a small Idaho town with mixed results.
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Pat’s High Speed Writing Rules
Vision: I have the courage, conviction and talent to write contest winning screenplays and will go on to have my scripts optioned and produced.
Title: The Home Strip
Genre: Rom Com
Concept: Planning to bilk a geezer out of his money an aging stripper takes her act into an assisted living home, where instead of finding fortune she discovers true love.
What I learned: Giving myself permission to write fast and write shit is lots of fun. It frees me from the trap of constant editing and striving for perfection the first time around. I’m also enjoying some of the surprises that come from just letting the writing flow.
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Terrie’s Masters High Speed Writing
Vision:
I get paid to write screenplays that get made into crowd pleasing successful films using a process that allows me to keep up my equestrian hobby.What I learned doing this assignment is that I can start and stop easily even in small amounts of time.
How it went? I got interrupted and had to stop. Having such a detailed outline makes it easy to drop in and out when it can’t be helped. I still have a lot to figure out on this screenplay.
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Claudia’s High Speed Writing Rules
Vision: To become such an excellent writer that I know every script I write will be well received by the industry, that my scripts will sell and be produced, and I’ll live the life of my dreams. To also become so empowered that fear is to be laughed at, instead I relish and look forward to pitching, meetings and much more.
Concept: After her father has a heart attack, a germaphobe organizational expert must take over the family cleaning business and meets the love of her life, not knowing he’s a borderline hoarder.
What I’ve Learned Doing This Assignment: It was so much easier to write the scene, focusing on speed and nothing else. I am having a hard time focusing on the writing though, simply because of the heat…. It’s 84 degrees in my home office, that’s with the AC on and fans going!
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ROBERT SMITH’s SPEEDWRITING RULES
MY VISION FOR SUCCESS AFTER THIS PROGRAM:
I want to become a great writer who delivers entertaining, informative, and uplifting scripts that sell and get produced.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS…?
The joy of just sticking to the rules and creating as you please keeping in mind that there
will be room to polish it the drafts that are yet to come.
TITLE: “Angels in Gangland.”
Genre: Gangster Comedy.
Concept: A slain gangster cannot enter the World to Come because of his life of crime his one hope to rectify his life is to persuade his killer to do as he should have done: Quit the mob, flip, and enter the Witness Protection Program. PICTURE: “The Sopranos” meets “It’s a Wonderful Life” – with a Jewish twist.
HOW IT WENT FOR ME USING THE RULES OF SPEEDWRITING.
Rule #1: CHOOSE SPEED OVER QUALITY: It felt good just to get it ‘out there.’
Rule #2: MASTER WRITING IN DRAFTS: Okay, I am just starting but if feels
good to know I’m building something that will improve as we build upon the foundation of a first draft.
Rule #3: KEEP YOURSELF EMPOWERED. These exercises in empowerment have
really worked for me.
Rule #4: ALLOW YOURSELF TO START WITHOUT ALL THE ANSWERS. This
was also very liberating.
Rule #5: KEEP MOVING FORWARD/DON’T STALL OUT. Like football, keep the
ball moving downfield. Is maybe my favorite rule. Again enhances the creative process. I was a member of an improvisational acting group. There the motto is always ‘Yes, and” to keep the scene going. The writing equivalent is “Keep moving forward, don’t stall out.”
RULE #6: ANYTHING YOU CAN’T SOLVE QUICKLY, GIVE IT TO YOUR
CREATIVE MIND TO PROCESS IT, KNOWING IT WILL COME TO YOU. This rule is very freeing to come up with a first draft. It made me feel, I can write what I can from outline-to-scene, anything I can’t write, will come. The answers will come.
I am committed to the process and will do all I can to not go on a tangent. But I have a recurring concern: I am writing a screen adaptation of a well-received stage play I have written, I know I have gold here, A great deal of what I will write (action and dialogue) I have already written and will now incorporate into the screenplay, does that violate this process in any way? Of course, I am committed to writing an adaptation for the screen that’s even better than what I wrote for the stage.
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Andrew Kelm’s High Speed Writing Rules
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes to be a great writer of TV and movies who is sought after by people I respect within the industry and has multiple successful TV series produced.
What I learned doing this assignment is… 5 pages rolled out on command. Very helpful to keep reminding myself that we are only shooting for 30% quality.
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Eclipse Neilson
My Vision:
I want to be a great award-winning ,successful writer, known for her genre, who creates the most beautiful films that inspire others to feel deeply, pause, and ponder ways to make the world a better place
What I learned from doing this assignment is…just keep going and I do a lot of spelling mistakes while writing fast.lOL
Title: THE NUN AND THE WITCH
Genre: (Sci-fi)
Concept: A dedicated nun destined to become a saint, bonds with a witch to achieve a sacred task to battle the evils of hatred consuming the heart of humanity, only to find out that time is running out.
How the process went for me: The first few pages easy -lots of action. The dialog in the next scenes will need work. I remind myself this is about writing fast not perfection.
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Veronica Turowski’s High Speed Writing Rules
My Vision: I want to be a successful writer who writes several scripts a year and sells them to producers who are eager to make my vision a reality by bringing my scripts to completion so everyone can watch my movies on the big screen.
What I learned from doing this assignment is writing quickly is possible. Just having to fill in the dialogue makes my writing go more smoothly. When I stop to solve a problem, I catch myself and let it go so I can finish.
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CJ’s High speed Writing Rules
Vision: I am a confident and empowered writer who embraces challenges and changes and writes produced highly sought-after projects with fresh and exciting ideas.
WIL: I am okay with writing without going back to fix thinks but I do occasionally find I fix a few things. Something I will continue to try to ignore!
Title: MEMORY HUNTERS
Concept:
In a future with technology to retrieve memories, a Memory Retrevalist, caught in the mind of a psychopath struggles to find a way out before he destroys her mind and kills her.
ASSIGNMENT:
Tell us how it went using the rules:
It is liberating to just keep writing. I still find I fix a thing or two not so much out of being a perfectionist but when I realize I have no idea what the word was that is on the paper and I want to clarify so when I go back for later revisions I can keep the flow going.
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Rebecca’s High Speed Writing Rules
Vision: My success in this program will lead me to be the go-to writer for producers looking for incredible scripts for successful movies enjoyed by a vast viewing audience.
Writing went well by using the speed writing rules. Using the outline as a guide, the action, and dialog came easy.
What I learned from doing this is just let the words flow as I can correct story problems in the next draft.
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Micki’s High Speed Writing Rules
My vision: Be recognized as a writer that will work with the industry and would do what it takes to be that WRITER.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that writing quickly can be a natural thing. I write for twenty minutes and take a brief break. Come back to the writing and write for twenty minutes. I do this about four times. I have to take breaks because of my medical condition.
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[WIM] Caroline’s High Speed Writing Rules
My Vision: I will perfect my process of writing great scripts and be recognized by the industry as good at what I do and have successful movies produced.
What I learned: I think this works best for me if I don’t think too much.
I used the rules but still wanted to look up a couple of things. I did but didn’t get too crazy. I am completely worried about cliches and crappy dialogue. But I am plowing through.
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KRISTIN’S HIGH-SPEED WRITING RULES
VISION: “I want the personal, professional, and financial freedom and joy that come from writing so well that I’m in demand, selling beyond my wildest dreams, and making worthy projects—on a big scale and with my active, collegial participation.”
WHAT I LEARNED in this assignment: It’s easy to get drawn into “correcting everything.” It was kind of fun to say, “no, you don’t have to know THAT bit of detail at this stage; keep moving.” I learned that it’s rather freeing to just keep moving.
HOW THE PROCESS WENT: I understand the concept of writing in drafts, and this REALLY WORKED in the outline process, so I’m all in. However, it still is easy to go down rabbit holes of “what would this character do?” Or “what if…?” So it was helpful to move forward WITHOUT ANSWERS, and to KEEP MOVING. In these exercises, I don’t have anything big to assign to my creative mind—but I do have a couple of outline entries to complete, later in the script. So those are definitely assigned, and I assume I’ll wake up with the answers.
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Sandra’s Lesson 2 High Speed Writing Rules
Vision: I am doing what I love to do as a writer with several successful produced movies.
What I learned is that some scenes were easier to use the high-speed writing rules, and others were not. I am making progress with learning this new model and way of writing.
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Farrin Rosenthal’s High Speed Writing Rules
Farrin’s Vision: To do what it takes to become a highly paid A-List Hollywood writer whose produced movies will entertain audiences around the world.
What I learned doing this assignment is how valuable these rules are to writing a first draft. Choose speed over quality. If I find myself stuck or slowing down, I remind myself the first draft is a vomit draft. It’s going to smell and look gross, but at least it’s written. Improvement will come in next drafts. Stay empowered! I can do this and will do this! So important to know and feel this. I don’t know all the answers at this stage. So what? Write what you do have and go from there, filling in the blanks along the way. Keep moving forward and know that your creative mind will always be working behind the scene to help solve problems. So cool when you allow yourself to process and do that! Moving forward!
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Leona Heraty’s High Speed Writing Rules
My Vision: To be the best family comedy screenwriter in the industry where my screenplays are produced into fabulous movies, making audiences laugh a lot and making me independently wealthy!
What I learned from doing this assignment is…The high speed writing rules really work! I enjoyed writing the scene quickly and when I hit a snag in the dialogue, instead of shutting down, I added a note to fix it later, and kept going. These rules are liberating! Yeay!
Title: Tara vs. the Termo-Lytes
Genre: Comedy (Sci-fi)
Concept: A teenage tour guide with no sense of direction and an extreme fear of bugs takes a wrong turn and leads her group to an abandoned country club overrun by giant mutant termites.How it went using the New High Speed Writing Rules: Using these rules went really well for me. When I hit a snag in some dialogue, I added a note to check my character profile for certain phrases the main character would use when she’s exasperated. I just kept writing as fast as I could. Empowering myself first also helped me keep going and just have fun with writing the scene.
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Joe McGloin’s High Speed Writing Rules
What I learned doing this assignment: It is freeing to write fast without word smithing as I go along. I started to twice, caught myself, and got back into the flow. As I suspected, the scene was short and I combined two scenes to get one scene with enough “meat” to make a satisfying attempt.
How it went using the rules: Considering I was shooting for 30%, it went well.
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Jane’s High Speed Writing Rules
MY VISION: I will make my living as a screenwriter by selling my own narrative scripts and successfully fulfilling writing assignments.
By doing this assignment I discovered that writing “crap” is something that is hard for me to let go and move on. I want to leave each scene in good shape. To help myself follow the writing rules, I’m using ????? as a place holder where I know I need to come back and fill stuff in. In doing this high speed work I found I was able to find places in nearly every scene where I can come back and add in or make it funny, which is my goal for this project.
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Gisele Frazeur’s High Speed Writing Rules
My vision: I am going to work diligently to become a brilliant, reliable screenwriter who is sought after, regularly produced, highly paid, and awarded. Artistic fulfillment and financial freedom will result from the achievement of this goal!
What I learned doing this assignment is: How hard it is for me to not get stuck nitpicking and just MOVE forward not matter what. SQUIRREL!
Title: On the Scent
Genre: Thriller
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Erik’s High Speed Writing Rules
My vision is to achieve true excellence as a screenwriter which causes me to be a consistently working writer, with actual movies made from some of my scripts, and to become wealthy as a screenwriter, develop relationships in the movie industry where I am recognized as a truly original writer, and to become indispensable in the market in which I want to write.
What I learned doing this assignment… I learned a very valuable lesson: that once you force yourself to write at a high speed, first it becomes an act of faith, and then, once you commit to the physical act of writing at a high speed (physically resisting the urge to slow down to try to make it better), your faith that your creativity will flow just as well as or even better than when you write slow will be paid off!
The high-speed writing rules are working well for me, I think particularly because I am making myself look at them as an act of faith. I wrote a scene that was a lot of fun in a short time and was amazed to discover that my creativity flowed completely unhindered.
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Jacqueline Murphy’s High Speed Writing Rules
MY Vision: To empower myself to be an A+ List writer, actress, producer whose scripts are optioned, sought after and made into TV shows & Film Feature films that inspire, receive critical acclaim, awards and are financially successful and emotional satisfying.
What I learned & how the process went for me: That the process of speed writing and the 5 min exercise I just did TODAY in Hal’s Saturday class catapulted me into ACTION. Get it done. So grateful to be doing what I love, gaining confidence and powering through the assignments. It’s actually more creative because I write what pops into my head from subconscious, weeks of working on this and I’m in the flow of creativity with the simmering of ideas from weeks past Love it!
How rules went? Rules 1. I was empowered and exercise state to activity helped. 2. Understanding writing drafts: I got rid of being perfect and went into free flow. 3. DEF choose speed over quality for this 1<sup>st</sup> draft as instructed 😉 4. I allowed myself to start and/or continue without all the answers. 5. I kept moving, didn’t allow myself to stall out AND it felt GREAT! 6. Even if you can’t create it now, you’ll be able to at some point-which is why I mentioned above that I had actually had MORE creativity and breakthrough doing this exercise because all the previous work kicked in. I’m thrilled. Thank you Hal!
TITLE: SORCERESS OF HOLLYWOOD
CONCEPT: A wannabe actress makes a deal with a Devil to “time travel” to 1940’s Hollywood and be the glamorous Hollywood movie star she dreams of only to be hurtled in a web of desire, danger, fame and power whilst discovering the father she never knew passed on a unique genetic trait that allows her to have magical powers, time travel and that her true “role” may be to make a change in the past that is seen in the future that her family set in motion.
GENRE: SUPERNATURAL DRAMA
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Linda’s High Speed Writing Rules!
My Vision is: I will do whatever it takes to be a sought-after profound writer with many successful movies produced and an Oscar on my mantel.
What I learned doing this assignment is to just go, go, go. Write fast, you will produce some good stuff and some crappy stuff, but that is okay, you’ll fix it later.
This process is giving me the encouragement to write when I don’t have a lot of time and would normally forego trying. I enjoy writing this way and am finding nuggets of good writing along the way.
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Lori’s High-Speed Writing Rules
Vision: I want to be a professional screenwriter recognized by the industry as the go-to for family-friendly scripts and have multiple successful movies produced.
What I learned: I can write fast without worrying about if my words are perfect. I was thrilled when I was able to write scene two in thirty minutes.
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Peter’s High Speed Writing Rules
Vision: I am a prolific screenwriter with a reputation for writing successful horror movies that terrify the audience long after they leave the theater.
WIL: Writing at speed is a shift of your mindset.
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Valeriya’s High Speed Writing Rules
My Vision: I am a masterful, ahead-of-the-game, and outside-the-box writer full of ideas and creative energy. My writing is fresh, impactful, iconic, beautiful, and effortless. My projects deliver outstanding commercial and artistic success. I am on the leading edge. I create a lot, it’s fun, quick, and easy. My whole life is that way. I love it.
I’m great at the High Speed Writing model!
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
– I realized there is no need to stop even for a minute trying to improve anything at this stage because everything will be changed many times and some scenes may get removed or replaced, so it would make a “perfect” first draft a waste of time.
How it went using the rules:
It went well. I felt some criticism coming up but ignored it. Gained a new understanding of the purpose of the first draft. It means that RULE 2 really sank in.
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Jamie MOD 5 Lesson 2
VISION: To sell my script or limited series with future spin-offs to a great producer. And made!
Concept: WITHOUT RECOURSE
I’ve started and transferred my slug lines etc., but know that it will all change and that’s ok. I did it, I went forward and didn’t look for words or to change anything…the dialogue is really going to be rough and that’s ok. too. I have definetely gone outside my comfort zone and went out of the box with the revision and I did it as quickly as I could and I’m good with it. I love the subject and changing the way to tell the story was an eyeopener for me. I can do it. In fact, I like this story better. Can’t wait to work on the script down the road…the other dreafts.
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Amechi’s High Speed Writing Rules
What I learned from doing this assignment is that it’s okay to write a low quality first draft of a scene. It feels a little strange but I can elevate it later.It went well. I did my best not to stall and keep moving forward but it’s very difficult not to correct typos.
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MODULE 5 LESSON 2: High Speed Writing
JACK P. High Speed Writing Rules
MY VISION: I will do whatever it takes to write a produced script that is recognized by the industry and leads to multiple successful movies.
I am going to be great at the High Speed Writing model!
What I learned: I had
already completed the first scene before this lesson, so I used this as an
opportunity to rewrite and refine – so I’m into the second draft of the first act.
I am using the 6 High Speed Writing Rules as I continue through the process:
Speed over quality; write in drafts; empowerment; write without all the
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John T’s High Speed Writing Rules
Vision: to become a reliable box office success and entertain audiences all over the place.
What I learned doing this assignment is that I sure make a lot of typos but the job gets done and who cares about tyuspos anyqy!! Seriously, the mind works faster than the fingers when doing HSW – and it’s sure saves time.
EXT. PHIL’S HOUSE – DAY
Ben pulls up to Phil’s driveway.
INT. PHIL’S BEDROOM – DAY
Phil peers through the curtains. He hurries to the closet, bpulls out a hefty suitcase.
DOORBELL RINGS.
Picks up his airline hat and coast, dashes out the back door.
Whips out his cell phone:
BEN
Hello, uber.
EXT. PHIL’S HOUSE – DAY
Ben knocks again – no answer. Just then his partner, Ned Williams pulls up in a Burea sedan. Hops out.
NED
Well, is he home.
Ben shakes his head.
NED
Good, let’s do this.
BEN
Im not so sure, you know, Clarice laid it donw pretty firm.
NED
Do you want ot nail this guy or not?
Ben looks at Ned, at the door….
NED
I brought the key unlocker. He’d never know.
Ben ponders again.
INT. PHIL’S OFFICE – DAY
Ben and Ned snoop around, rifle through papers bill and Phil’s personal notes.
NED
Over here.
Ned tries a closet, locked. Puts his lock breaker on it.
BEN
Wait a minute.
Too late. It opens.
NED
Well, looky here. Pay day!
Ben looks in the large closet. A huge map on the wall showing all the murder locations – maps, postit notes, strings all over.
BEN
Holy shit.
NED
Any doubt he’s your man?
BEN
Sure looks like it… too bad we can’t use it in court.
NED
Why the hell not?
BEN
Because it’s not right, I mean, I’ll examine this for the caae but anything we use has to be duplicated with other evidence.
NED
Goddam, you’re such a boyscout.
BEN
I know, got it from my father.
Ben takes a closer look. His eyes light up.
BEN
I think I know where the next murder going to be. See this?
NED
Yes, I mean, no.
Ben points at marker arrows.
BEN
They all lead to the next murder, so look where the arrow points after the Meredith Hotel where the Beverly Townsend murder happened. The next one sppears to be in Columbus.
NET
If you’re right, you need to move on this.
BEN
He’s leaving tomorrow on a three-day trip.
NED
I’ll bet I can guess where he’s going.
BEN
You mean, where he’s staying Friday night.
NED
I’m hereby promoting you to eagle scount. Let’s roll.
BEN
Why do you always say that?
NED
It’s what we do.
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Joaquin “Ibn Gray’s” High Speed Writing Rules
My vision is that I am an A plus screenplay writer, who’s script get produced into highly profitable films which I receive a large financial benefit from.
What I learned from doing this assignment is keep writing when you drift off, re focus and keep typing through. Editing comes later.
I found myself drifting into la la land a few times but easily came back to writing because I keep telling myself to keep pushing.
Joaquin “Ibn Gray”
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