The question is whether someone will want to eat off your plate when there are so many other things offered on the buffet...oh, potatoes...

That's right! The menu is varied.

"I prefer watermelons myself..."

The point is, write soemthing, finish it or scrap it, then write somethnig else or scrap, etc.

Son't scrap it.  Finish it.


Phil

Look, I never scraped any idea I've written, but I never showed them to anyone though. I kept them save in order to use in other opportunity when I’ll see them with another eyes.

I keep any decent idea I come up with. I've filed away dozens of little thoughts and clever notions, and every once in awhile when I feel like writing, I consider some of those old ideas and end up finding one that just hits me and I know where to go with it. I got the original idea for Fempiror back in 1996, and tinkered with it for several years off and on. I would work on it, get bored, stop, pick it back up, tinker, stop, and so on. I stopped when my mind would not make the idea work into a good story, but I never scrapped it. I just set it aside when the idea was just not working. As I went on, I saw in other movies and stories snippets of what I was going for and so I saved those in my head. I finally finished the first screenplay in 2004! Setting it aside is a good writing practice when an idea is refusing to cooperate, but you shouldn't scrap it.

That's it George!

Quoted from Toran Ok i need help with my script Hunted. Its in the year 2345. The human kind is at war with the aliens. Twelve starfighter were sent to protect a transportation ship. Three huge Alien ships shoot down the Transpotation ship. The ship hits a planet. the ship rips in half. Some people in the front piece of the ship survived. So they have to go looking for the other piece just in case there are survivors. But its hard to look for a ship when you are being hunted.

have you thought about what happens when they do find the other half of the ship?

Quoted from dogglebe You need to focus on one script.  It seems thtat every week or so, you tell us your latest story idea.  It gets tiresome. Phil

whats wrong with having more then one idea? whats wrong with asking for feedback now and having it for later???

why dont you actually give some feedback on the ideas instead of wasting your time bitching and whining about people who have more then ONE idea??

THAT gets tiring.

There's nothing wrong with having more than one idea.  The problem is when you get people to help you with an idea, only to have you start another idea and ask for help with that one.  And then another idea pops into your head, which you ask for help...

And then another...

And another....

And another....

I have helped people with their ideas.  I guess you haven't read every thread and post in the two days you've been here.


Phil

i'm slowly going through them... i dont really pay attention to the author of the idea... i just like reading other ideas people have and coming up with stuff for it.. it helps my creative juices start flowing... and plus someone else's idea may plant the seed of an idea for my own stories/screenplays

dothebartman has practically been banished by everyone on the site.  Giving feedback on one of the many threads that he started is a waste of two minutes of your time.  

The point, H.D., is that "ideas" are a dime a dozen.  I could rattle off 30 of 'em right now.  There is no talent involved with tossing out an idea.

But fleshing that idea out into something tangible -- that is much more dificult.

People who toss out idea after idea while never showing a finished product -- never having seen their ideas through -- become tiresome.

Not saying you are one of 'em (yet, anyway).  Just sayin', you know?

i know what your saying...

i wont turn into dothebartman...trust me - i finish stuff

By the way, If dothebartman1234 gets a job in companies like Universal Studios, Tristar, Paramount, Warner Bros just to pop up ideas to them...

Why not? One day the chairman could say to him..- "That'$ it, boy! It is what we are looking for!" picks up the phone and  "Hello, Miss Ferrol? Call to the Cohen Bros, right now and tell them that we have a great idea to a screenplay!" - Then the chairman hit a little the dothebartman1234's chin and says: "You are our Boys Ideas!"

keep thinking, creating and writing because one day you will hit the Super Jackpot ...