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Day 8 Assignments
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Jeffrey Alan Chase Completed Act 2
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: just keep pushing ahead. I’ve learned a bunch of things from my characters, several new twists in their emotional and motivational makeup. The most important thing I’ve learned is that: my characters don’t want to be stuck in a box. They have their own voice and have to say what they need to say. Trying to write fast and “mostly” succeeding. I’ve just finished Act 3 and moving into ACT 4. Really having fun with this.
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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Rebecca Completed Act 2 (almost a week ago)
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.
What I learned from this assignment is that I could complete Act 2 in 4 days from start to finish using this technique.
The more I got into Act 2 the easier the writing became. Sometimes my fingers typed quicker than my keyboard. (Lesson learned – reset keyboard sensitivity.) I am now a few pages from completing Act 3 which is a bit longer than Act 2.
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Micki’s Completed Act 2
My vision: Be recognized as a writer that will work with the industry and would do what it takes to be that WRITER.
EMPOWERED!
What I learned from doing this assignment is that it went by fast. I usually get stuck on Acct 2 and with the outline and knowing the characters, I didn’t have a hang up. It was great. And still racing against the timer. Now on to ACT 3, this is where it is getting exciting. Can’t wait to see what happens. Thank you!
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KRISTIN COMPLETED ACT 2
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: That I’m starting to get less “afraid” of whether I can do this quickly. In our lessons about writer’s block or fear or whatever, I usually feel like that doesn’t apply to me—because I write for a living. I write on deadline and take notes all the time (documentaries, in the last few years, so very particular style, and different to this one). I also edit on demand for clients. But I have identified my own personal creative doubt (“maybe I can’t create something of my own”), even though I have before. As I’m doing this with Hal’s process, I’m owning my abilities more, and feeling more “in my own process.” NOT my technical process, but my organic, truly creative process. This is a huge thing. Not done, by any stretch, but coming into focus.
HOW’S IT GOING? What’s “going” is my personal empowerment. If someone had asked me what I might learn in this program, I would not have imagined that this would be my answer. I’ve been walking around feeling empowered in many ways for a long time—but holding this silent, secret fear. Who knew?
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Pat Completed Act 2
Vision: I have the talent and tenacity to create contest winning screenplays, and I will go on to have my scripts optioned and produced.
What I Learned: I continue to learn that I actually can write fast, not look back, but forge ahead and have the confidence to believe that rewrites will continue to improve the story. I’m also seeing places that need some corrections and scenes that should be moved around. But I just make notes. I don’t even think about stopping to change things.
How it’s going: Most of the answer is above, in What I Learned. It’s going amazingly well. I took this course to get me back into writing after a few years’ hiatus, and it’s almost hard to believe that my creativity remains intact. I’m gaining more confidence each day. Not falling behind is sometimes a challenge, but discipline is working its way into my life, and I love how it’s going!
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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
Title: THE NUN AND THE WITCH
Genre: (mystical /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 IT WENT. I was really pleased with a scene and a monologue I wrote this week.
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Sandra Completed Act 2
Vision: I am doing what I love to do as a writer with several successful produced movies.
What I learned doing this assignment is how to take control of my creative processes. I finished Act 2 however I do not have enough scenes or pages. I plan to create additional scenes and pages that will be added in the next draft.
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Farrin Rosenthal Completed Act 2
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 to write and not worry about great quality. That comes later. Now, the focus is on speed, not quality. Write at 30% and empower yourself first, then the pages will flow.
Act 2 draft 1 is done!
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Leona Heraty Completed Act 2
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…it’s totally OK to right crap for the first draft! It’s liberating to just let the words flow and it’s fun not to judge my own writing!
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
How the high-speed writing rules are working for me: They’re working great! I’m having fun, writing fast and enjoying not wordsmithing! -
Erik Completed Act 2
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… A thirty-percent quality is freeing and actually feels better than 30% because the creativity just flows.
Things are still going well sticking to the high-speed writing rules! The trick is to understand that not every element of the story you had in mind when doing the outline is going to come out during high-speed writing, so if you just allow the high-speed writing to flow, you can be comfortable knowing that those elements will just be added later, and the overall script is going to be better on top of that because of the freedom of the fast writing.
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Terrie Completed Act II
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 how having an outline allows me to jump back into writing in life interferes with daily progress..
How it went? I wasn’t able to write for several days due to work etc. but thanks to having an outline as soon as things eased up I jumped back in and got my last scene written.
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ROBERT SMITH COMPLETED ACT 2
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.
HOW IS IT GOING FOR YOU? WHICH IS ALSO WHAT I LEARNED.
Going beautifully. The empowerment works and my disregarding any attempt to imporove anything is allowing me to actually speedwrite. I am fully confident that everything necessary that I don’t know, I will create later. Meanwhile, Act 2 is done.
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Lori Lance Completed Act 2
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: lowering my standards on the first draft helped me move forward and finish Act 2.
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Gisele Frazeur Completed Act 2
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: Just start. Just do it. There is strength and momentum in those actions.
Title: On the Scent
Genre: Thriller
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Claudia’s Completed Act 2
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.
While I’m writing faster than I’ve ever written before… I feel overwhelmed because I was ahead behind Module 5 and then couldn’t write for a week… I need to use the timer and I need to empower myself better.
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Joe McGloin completed Act II
Vision: I am a talented, highly regarded, efficient, relaxed, happy, WGA screenwriter
What I learned doing this assignment is to just keep going and don’t word smith. Assume I will successfully complete the scene and be okay with 30%
How it’s going: The writing is going fine. The speed writing not so much. When I try to speed up I stay short and dialogue-driven, skimming the surface of the scene. Being behind makes me focus on finishing the scene more than the speed. But I’m trying to do the speed thing as best I can. This is a new skill that I will have to work on more.
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Jacqueline Murphy Completed Act 2 MOD 5 Lesson 8
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 is that when I lower my standards and just did a “stick figure” scene, thought: get this done AFTER empowering myself for real and just got started-Using the strategies from Lesson 5 for “What to do when you’re behind” I DID find I had some interesting creative revelations, scenes, set up, character reveals. So that was fun. I kept saying: Interesting keep going and write as it comes into your mind without EDITING it. Again I know my Act 2 structure is off and some scenes may be to off the while, on the nose and need work but I’m determined to get this one. DOING the assignment every day and LOCKING in good writing habits, with confidence and empowerment really helps. I have to ask myself why was I behind. But I’m moving on. This is fun! Right now I’m in Act 3 midway but I wanted to go back and complete all the assignment POSTINGS to help lock things in. I had done the writing the last week and didn’t want to get held up with assingments. Now I’m playing catch up but I can see my progression. By Lesson 10 I will be in sync with writing & posting assignments but still behind. A bit. By draft 2 hopefully I can stay on top of it all as my empowerment and confidence and fun with writing grows!
Do State-To-Activity empowerment process.
State: It really is possible…Activity: …to have control of my creative processes.
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Andrew Kelm Completed Act 2
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… I can do the speed writing for 30% quality fine. My routine has been disrupted recently so I am not getting to my usual two hours of writing time in the morning as regularly as usual. I am not using my time very well, and it is difficult to get myself to write at other times in the day. I am behind but I will keep going. The affirmations are helping. And I am finished act 2 now. Yay!
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Amechi’s Completed Act 2
MY VISION
I am going to be in the top 1% of action/comedy writers in the industry who writes major action films.What I learned from doing this assignment is to remind myself to have low standards for a first draft even if the story is not making as much sense or feeling as tight as I want it to.
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Tom Completed Act 2
My Vision: Produce viable alternatives on short notice when working a Project with a Manager and Producers.
During this assignment, I learned I can work faster than I ever thought possible.
I discovered mixing and matches events in my outline is a quick and easy way to strengthen my structure and make writing my script bullet proof because I’ve overcome major hurtles.
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Lesson 8: Finish up Act 2. Final 6 – 10 pages Jack P. – Completed Act 2
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.
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really is possible to have control of my creative processes.What
I learned: It’s OK to work ahead on the first draft. I’m doing “Draft 1.5” work
now and that’s perfectly fine. Draft 2 work is almost here. -
John T’s Completed Act 2
Vision: to become a reliable box office success and entertain audiences all over the world.
What I learned doing this assignment is the equivalent of simply putting one foot in front of the other, or eating a horse, one bite at a time, assuming you’re really hungry. But seriously, write just one sentence and dream of the ways and wheres it could lead.
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Linda Completed Act 2
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 it’s much easier to keep writing every day than to start and stop. I paused on this screenplay to hit some deadlines on other work and am now struggling to remember what I was thinking on some of these scenes as I write from outline. On the flip side, I feel like I’m coming in with a fresh perspective and quickly seeing areas where I must make improvements during the next drafts.
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