Day 61: October Wrap Up
All in all, October was a pretty good month. I achieved 56 pages of new material plus all the written and video blogs. 28 new articles were posted to the News Page and a new ScriptTalk™ interview went up. I also ended the month with 49 new Twitter followers despite pulling back on my online presence during the last week and a half of the month. On the negative side, however, I did not write the second episode of Everyday Clowns that I had hoped to complete. I have a reading f
Day 44: ScriptTalk plus 3rd Act Issues
Wow, I was tired today. The late night on Monday and the early day on Tuesday has worn me out. Instead of going to bed last night, I pulled out the third act of Come Ups and started reading. I probably should have gone to bed. I discovered that I have a stronger ending to Act 2 about 7 pages later than where I thought I was ending it. So right now my second act is overwritten and my third act is under written. I've tried to convince myself that this is just a bend of the rule
Day 43: ScriptTalk and Clowns
Today was a busy, full day of activity. After a late night of reviewing the work I did on Come Ups, I rose early to do some rewrites on the latest Everyday Clowns episode to prep it for a reading tonight at the IAWTV writer's workshop. I was hoping to cut it down a bit from its nearly 16 pages and ended up adding material to make it 17 pages. It raised a few eyebrows at the reading, but they went through with it anyway. If the previous episodes hadn't made such a good impress
Day 38: Rewrites & Research
A light day on writing new material, but I did do some rewriting on the latest episode of Everyday Clowns. I was hoping to trim it down a bit but ended up adding a page, bringing it to a total of 17 pages. That's really long for a webisode, and I may have to rethink this down the road. On the plus side though, it establishes a through line for the remainder of the series. Whereas the series up to this point has been a sequence of comic sketches loosely connected with an overa
Day 37: Come Ups Act 2 pt. 1
Come Ups Act 2 pt. 1 Original Come Ups Act 2 pt 1 STC Today we going to look at the changes made to the first half of the second act of my screenplay Come Ups after applying the Save the Cat (STC) paradigm to the script. This will be a much larger section of the script than we have previously examined because the plot points cover a larger swath of material. You can download both the original version and the STC version at the links above to follow along. The first thing you
Day 16: Come Ups - Save the Cat First Act Break
You can download the Catalyst section of Act 1 in both the original and STC versions at the links below: Come Ups Original Draft - First Act Break Come Ups STC Draft - First Act Break Yesterday, we continued our journey through the first act of my screenplay Come Ups, comparing the Original Version (OV) with the Save the Cat (STC) draft. I explained the decision to expand the Catalyst moment into a sequence of events that culminated with the Primary Catalyst occurring on pag
