Hey I am new here. My name is Chris Wilson, aka: Towser the Dog (um... don't ask, lol). I'm 16 and I'm from New Waltham near Grimsby in England. I've been writing scripts since about 1998 and that was triggered off by how The Simpsons had once again another piss-poor episode (has anything changed?). I have a big dream of going to Hollywood and being a big ass rich writer! But for now, I like to write them irritating comedy shows (coming soon to a computer screen near you by the way, lol). My favourite film is The Apartment (1960; dir: Billy Wilder). My favourite director is Billy Wilder. I'd like to rub something in everybody's faces as at college, I am currently taking both Media and Film Studies, which is awesome!  

Quoted from Towser, posted September 23rd, 2004, 2:24pm at here I'd like to rub something in everybody's faces as at college

You and me both. Anyways, welcome to Simply. Hope you enjoy it here.

 

    I have spent a large chunk of my life as an underachiever. Despite this I have managed to live a pretty comfortable and respectable existence. I emerged from my Southern California High School unscathed and unnoticed. I earned a Bachelors degree from California State University Long Beach in Radio, Television, and Film. During those four years I stayed quietly in the shadows scoring and photographing other student films. It earned me a reputation as a reliable, dependable, hard worker. This was my label and it had let me slip under the radar without incident or cause for alarm, but I was acutely aware that the trade off for this complacency was that something important inside me was dying. If I continued on this path that something would eventually be gone forever. I knew it as did everyone who knew me.

    In 1999 I left Los Angeles for the romantic notion of New York City trying to slip the tight bonds of my own apathy and pursue that something. I took the first job I was offered behind a computer terminal in a Legal Publishing house. This was it, I told myself, I was in the biggest brightest city in the world and I was finally going to be more than the life I had lead so far. Those first few months in New York were among the most wonderful of my life and I was sure I was closer to that something than I had ever been. It also became clear to me that writing was the way I would rise above. I had talent and I was as passionate about it as a person with no passion could be. New York had pushed me further than I had ever gotten with my writing and I had started and stopped more Novels than I could have ever dreamed of in Los Angeles. I was moving in a forward direction and getting nowhere. As the days and months passed the brightness of the city faded under the ultra violet glow of my tedious desk job. I was caught again in the quicksand of contentment and my own fear of success.

    I decided to go back to school and pursue a Masters Degree. That seemed like a safe and logical step. The New School University had a respectable creative writing program and I often wonder what my life would have been like I had showed up to the office two days earlier, before the program deadline. The teaching program was opened and I settled in comfortably. I was back on the treadmill. I became a good teacher and for the most part loved my students and my job. I married and had a beautiful baby girl. I was simultaneously satisfied and unfulfilled. My students inspired me to keep that something alive and I did, but I felt it slipping from me with every passing moment. And then one day the whole world was different.

    From the fifth floor window of my classroom in Brooklyn, my students and I watched not just the beautiful skyline we took for granted change forever, but everything in our lives as well. As students names were called over the PA system and panicked parents rushed to take their children home I can’t tell you exactly what I was thinking, but I do know that my trance was lifted and I wanted nothing to do with my former self. I was ashamed, humbled and thankful that I had my family to fortify my newfound clarity.

    I moved back to Los Angeles last year and vowed never to live with regret only to work towards minimizing it. The path I put myself on for so many years was not a waste. Instead I know now that there was no other path I could have been on given the choices I made. It lead me to that something I wanted to know so clearly and it guides every new choice in my new life. Here is my something as simply as I can state it: I am a writer.

Is that you inside the pink suit?

If it is you look sort of like a combination of Halle Berry and Janet Jackson.

Hi, my name is Nicole Adams.  I am 16 going on 17 in December.  Prank Initiation was my very first script.  I enjoy reading and writing.  I mostly write stories, but my friend, Tanner (directoboy12), got me into scripts.  We, along with my sister and friends, make movies that he writes.  ( Tanner's Valerie we filmed. )  I wrote Prank Initation in intention of filming it among ourselves.  But since we never got around to it, we dicided to send it in.  I like basically any music, depending on the song.  But if I had to choose the best, it would be classic rock and country.  Stuff like Led Zepplin, AC DC, the Beatles, Eagles, etc.  I am in 11th grade.  I am doing quite well.  I have a 4.036 carreer.  And I have no clue where I want to go in life.  I don't have a fav director or anything like that.  I like acting, but I don't think I'm that great.  I just like doing it.  

cool cool
see...its awesome how so many scriptwriters are young....i love that.
makes me feel like the youth are gaining prominent footholds in adult society....hehehe

what screenplays you currently wanting to write/or are writing?

I got some really good input on Prank Initiation.  So I plan on rewriting that.  I just have to get around to it.

what about you?  are you working on anything?

Hey Everyone!

Friends call me Princess. I'm from Las Vegas, NV and my current hobbies include Voice Acting and Dance.

At 26 years old I am obsessed with Cartoons. So much so, "I Dream in Animation"



LUV YA!

Anyone say larger than life?

I am Jesse Stilwell of North Carolina.  I'm 23 on November 1st and I've been writing for a damn long time, but just got into screenwriting a year ago after finding out that I'm a crappy novelist.  I tend to put some umph in my dialogue and found dialogue much easier to write in screenwriting, so ta-da; here I am.

I've yet to finish a screenplay, although I've got a metric ton of them started.  My current project is looking to be my first finished screenplay, which I'm fairly excited about.  I doubt it will ever see the light of day as I refuse to move to California due to heat being my asthma's bane, but oh well, I still love to write.

My genre of choice is comedy but I'm also known to write a thriller here or there.  I'm not a fan of pure drama, horror, or action.  I like to make people think, laugh, or both.  I also have a flair for debate and tend to get defensive, well, often.  I'm sure it'll come out at some point on this board, so I apologize in advance.

Nice to meet you all.

Welcome to the board, Jesse.

Hi all,

I've been involved in screenwriting for the past couple of years. After some friends began showing an interest I decided to create an entity, which will host screenplays for both TV and Film. Conflict Scripts started back in July 2003 and we currently have a selection of screenplay's which are viewable on our website.

We also have a team of movie/book reviewers who contribute to us on a regular basis to help build up the website content and along with some other features including a new look forum we hope to turn Conflict Scripts into a respectable voice for film.

Thanks for your time and feel free to take a look around our website, we are always looking for feedback and ideas to improve Conflict Scripts.

Stu

The name is Matt. I am 18 years old. I am finishing High School. I live in Maryland. I am going to the New York Film Academy for acting and screenwriting after High School. I like to write. I started writing when I was more into acting and I wrote my scripts so I could act in them and now I am just addicted. I am a huge horror fan. I love them. I own like every horror movie. I am a very active person. If I'm not writing then I am either at the club, a party, or just passed out. lol. I have a girlfriend named, Kirsten, she's so hot. Anyway, that's pretty much me.