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R.E. you go to D.D. or used to go there... I remember talking to you a few times and you know a few other members there too don't you? I think I know your name actually... I'll P.M. and see if I'm right
Good thoughts~
P.S. Not that I give piss in a cat dish really, just... you know... If I'm right I don't wanna spread it all around so your "hit and miss" nature is gone
I look forward to your western and to see what you do with your short on the Zombie anthology... You're a pretty talented character and it'd be a shame to know someone like you didn't make it in the feild you love and do so well, you know...
I was a regular member on a site called I-mockery until I asked to be banned. Yes, I asked to be banned, because I was looking for something more stimulating to put my creative juices to work on. I think a health way to work on script is to just write as much as possible and I hope some of you will put some of your wierdest idea's on my site...I want to say that I'm not out to steal any idea's or use this site for a pipe dream at actually making my own professional script. I think in everyone there has to be a level of pride in knowing that what they accomplish is 100% there own. Please have fun post and make up a character.
Hi. This is Don. I'm the Webmaster of SimplyScripts.com and the administrator of this discussion forum. I admire all of you who contribute to this site. I admire you for your bravery. I admire you for being able to stand up and say, this is who I am, this is where I am from and this is how old I am.
I just finished read a chapter from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" to my sons. My boys are eight and three. The chapter I read ended with this:
The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in a corner. As it fell with a crash they looked that way, and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were. The Tin Woodman, raising his axe, rushed toward the little man and cried out, "Who are you?"
"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," said the little man, in a trembling voice. "But don't strike me--please don't--and I'll do anything you want me to."
So, after reading that I thought it was time for Toto to kick over the screen... I hope you aren't too disappointed.
I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," said the little man, in a trembling voice. "But don't strike me--please don't. My name is Don Boose and I'm an unpublished screenwriter.
And, quite frankly, I don't know how my dorky little website got so out of control. I didn't set out to create a screenwriting website. I just like reading. I like reading scripts. Like plays, novels and short stories, a screenplay is a fantastic form of literature. A good screenplay grabs you by the ears and pulls you into a story and doesn't let you go until you get to "The End" and you look up and think, "wow.".
Seriously though, I don't see myself as "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". I'm neither little, bald nor wrinkled, yet. However, I am sure that a lot of you have a vision in your mind of who I am and what I am like. I hope that by revealing to you all who am I and what I am like, I don't disappoint you.
SimplyScripts.com started out six years ago as a personal bookmark of neat scripts on the 'net. It grew. Later I got requests from people who wanted their scripts posted on the net for others to read. I posted a few, though only those I thought were good.
Then I got a request from a young boy to post his script. The format was wrong, the stories were silly and he kept pestering me to post them. I did. He wrote more stories. I posted those, too. He wrote me a letter telling me that seeing his stories on the web inspired him to write more. And, the feedback he got inspired him to write better. He wrote better. He spell checked them before he sent them to me. I was relieved.
It was then I decided that no matter what I thought of the story. No matter how badly written or badly formatted the story was, everyone would get a chance on SimplyScripts.com.
So, that is why all the stories get an equal footing on the site, much to the consternation of some who ask me to separate out the wheat from the chaff. When it comes to an idea, what is wheat and what is chaff, is hard to tell. A great idea can come in bizarre forms. A stupid idea can be served up beautifully. (This doesn't mean that I don't appreciate a great idea served up in 'generally accepted screenplay format').
The site is meant to give everyone a chance. The unproduced section of this site gives everyone a chance to work through the bad spelling or strange formatting to focus on the story that they want to tell. When I got an email from someone asking me to take down their script, I was elated. Someone saw it and wanted to produce it. Six months later it happened again. Now it happens every month or so. None of the scripts 'discovered' on the site, to my knowledge have been "six figure block busters", but that isn't the point. If you are here with "how much can I make" on your mind. You are in the wrong place. If you are here with, "I have this crazy idea," Then, no matter who you are, you are in the right place. At one point, someone wrote a story from their heart and laid it out for others to read, warts and all. And someone read it. And it became a movie.
More Later,
Oh. I was born on Labor Day in 1965.
Don
Hey Don...
Stumbled across this thread and had to resurrect it!! Wow there are a lot of people here that go waaaaaaay back, LOL!
Just wanted to say thanks for doing such a great job administering/webmastering this site and for giving people a place to post their work and read and learn from others too.
I enjoyed reading your post here and putting a face to your infamous name.
I can't remember if I have posted here or not...so here goes:
My name is Stewart and I was born in Dunfermline, Scotland 1977. I moved to just outside Saint John, New Brunswick in Canada around late 1989. From there, we travelled 10 days across Canada until we came to Richmond, British Columbia in 1996. I have 3 older sisters, 2 of which are still back in the UK...along with other family.
I work in the I.T. field - and lend support and development to a large video chain across Canada (yay, free movies!). I like my job, but I don't love it...
I started to write when I was around 22, but never really took it seriously until the last couple of years. I think I have talent, so I am trying to make up for lost time! So far, I have written the following:
Father - Short Looking Down From Above - Short Addiction - 60 min feature Untitled Project - Feature length, 1st draft The Confession Booth - Short, 1st draft
But the big thing is another script that I have written. It's currently in Option to a production and distribution company and hopefully will be starting production sometime in the fall. It will have a nice little budget, and we are hoping to attach a well known name. Yay! I don't talk about it much because I don't want to jinx myself...and until they say "...And Action!" - it's still not concrete.
I am very easy to get a long with, a good laugh, great sense of humour and very loving. I have lots of friends from coast to coast and overseas. I'm a geniunely nice guy! I got married last July 17th to my lovely girlfriend Nadine, and we are about to enjoy our first anniversary. Married life is tough, but what isn't these days.
I call myself MacDuff, because that is my Clan. We killed MacBeth, so I'm famous for something.
I am currently working on a new project that will hopefully be my next success...
But the big thing is another script that I have written. It's currently in Option to a production and distribution company and hopefully will be starting production sometime in the fall. It will have a nice little budget, and we are hoping to attach a well known name. Yay! I don't talk about it much because I don't want to jinx myself...and until they say "...And Action!" - it's still not concrete.
Hey Stew,
I wish you the best with this project - I hear you on the whole 'jinx thing' but keep us posted with how you get on, ok? I really enjoyed reading 'Looking Down from above' too btw.
My name is George Willson, and I've been writing since I was a senior in high school in 1992...sort of. Before then, I made impromptu "movies" in my backyard with an old video camera, and instead of having dialogue, I set them all to music. I have since lost that tape. I don't know where it is.
I mark 1992 as my started writing year because it was in that year I actually sat down to write something...but it wasn't a screenplay. No, I wrote a musical piece and scored it for a concert band. It was called "Creature" and lasted about 8 minutes. It has been played twice since I wrote it - never end to end and never in public: once in high school and once when I was in the military band. I conducted both times.
In 1993, I started writing in a different medium: musicals. I knew I had a knack for storytelling, so I thought I'd combine my musical ability with storytelling and be another Andrew Lloyd Webber. My first musical, Amehr, was completed with a collaborator writing lyrics to my music in 1997 and I submitted it local commuity theatres. Only one threatened to produce, but backed out because he didn't understand it. The only feedback I ever really got was, "The music was beautiful, but I didn't understand it." I revisited it in 1998. Yeah, it was a mess. Might make it into a movie at some point. Back to the drawing board.
In 1998, I completed my second musical called One Night. This one had a more solid storyline, good music, and I wrote book, music, and lyrics on my own making me more of a Stephen Sondheim instead of an Andrew Lloyd Webber. When no one would produce, I attempted to produce it myself in 1999, but never was able to get a cast to perform it. I still have it stored away. I have sequenced CD's (it took two) of the music. It has never been performed.
When I was writing One Night, I got into playwriting. With a local playwriting forum, I wrote a one act play called The S&M Library which was a sketch show about a worker in the Southern & Metro Library. It was performed 8 times at a little theatre in Tulsa, OK, and it was hilarious (judging by the audience laughter).
During the One Night fiasco, I ran across a guy on the internet called Jimmy Granström (but he went by Woodriver at the time) who liked musicals and in collaboration with a total of 4 other people (all of them Swedish!), we wrote a musical called Ron & Julie which was produced in Sweden at a college dinner theatre. The website is still up at www.ronjulie.com; I wrote the music clip which plays when you login to the site.
In 2001, I was browsing the internet and ran across screenplays. I started reading, and thought it would be cool to write a movie. I'd written musicals and plays (I have a couple I haven't mentioned), so I thought "why not?" I had an affinity for horror and thriller movies, so I came up with a couple of plots. The first screenplay I completed was entitled Vengeance, which you can read under horror on this site. I completed a second one very shortly thereafter called The Soul Keeper, which is also on this site under thriller.
I had another idea at the time about a twist on the traditional Vampire myth. It started very simply where the characters had all the traditional characteristics, but hated who they were. Then I recalled Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula and wanted to re-write this based on my vampire myth change-up. I wanted Dracula to be an old man, there is a young man who protects him, I wanted Mina Murray to look like the young man's lost love causing him to follow her around, and I wanted the vampire hunter (I couldn't remember his name at the time) to be a vampire himself and have a vendetta against the young man. Over the next 3 years, this idea morphed into a tale now known as The Fempiror Chronicles. I have written parts 1-3. For those who have been following the tale, I told you those stories to tell you this one: Part 4 is my rewrite of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
I now sit here, 13 years after I started writing something, in a genre completely removed from where I started. I can still write music, and I still play piano, but mostly I play the keyboard, if you know what I mean. Boy, I sure know how to run on.
Anyway, there's me in a nutshell, but nowhere near the whole story.
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