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You guys are monsters. I think it's only me and Ripley who aren't even half way done.
I fit in that group, too, sadly. I'm going to continue going the action-less route today, though. It worked yesterday and I had less time than I do today. =)
It's funny how movies are always seen as a visual medium, and in theory, we should understand what's going on without turning on the sound.
Now you're trying the other way around. Sound only!
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Memwipe - Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller (114 pages) - In a world where memories can be erased by request, a Memory Erasing Specialist desperately searches for the culprit when his wife becomes a target for erasure -- with his former colleagues hot on his trail.
First drafts are easy. It's going back to rewrite that is hard. Will do though.
I'm the opposite, Pia. The first draft is the hardest for me. Once I have that done, it's easy for me to go back and logically critique it. The first drafts of my novels took months, but rewriting was a piece of cake, even when it was work. Now the hard part is figuring out how to fix a major problem because you're right back to first drafting an entire new section to fix it.
YES! Finally finished my Act I at page 30. Now the dreaded Act II starts....
FEATURE:
Memwipe - Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller (114 pages) - In a world where memories can be erased by request, a Memory Erasing Specialist desperately searches for the culprit when his wife becomes a target for erasure -- with his former colleagues hot on his trail.
YES! Finally finished my Act I at page 30. Now the dreaded Act II starts....
Save yourself some grief. Just skip to act III. Forget about plot and all that other bullshit. It's not worth the effort it takes to go through act II.
Save yourself some grief. Just skip to act III. Forget about plot and all that other bullshit. It's not worth the effort it takes to go through act II.
That's what I did - got first and third, then second, then rewrote the third. Easier this way. Unfortunately everytime I stick my nose into the script I understand that it should be rewritten. Both second and third.
I say why to write if you need to rewrite. Why can't we skip to 'rewrite' right away...
On page 20. My amnesiac main character is becoming less friendly by the minute.
He killed one guy, tortured another then killed them. Now, he's threatened to kill a cab driver, his family, his pets, his boss and anyone whom he's ever had as a fare because he couldn't pay the $13 fare.
I'm going to have to make my guy redeem himself eventually, I think.
That will be alot of redeeming! Wow, look forward to it.
I agree with George, the first draft is the hardest...the re-tinkering and fixing, is the easy part. I think it's even easier coming up with the story/plot, than first writing it all down.
My guy keeps having blackouts and when he wakes up he finds dead women in his apartment. How this happens I will not tell.
Oh, don't tell me you're doing the Cigarette Burns thing... Come on, that was one of the worst "Deus Ex Machina" moments ever.
Guy is tied to a chair with another guy standing over him with a machete. One of those flash things happen and all of a sudden, the guy is untied and the machete guy is dead. It's one of those things, Pia... =(
It's an episode from Masters of Horror, a short-lived show of 1-hour movies. One of them had a sequence like the one I described, and it seemed like what Pia was describing.
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