Questions

1. How old are you?
2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?
3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?
4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...
5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?
6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?
7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?
8. What music inspires you to write?
9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.
10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.

I'll bite. I don't think this has been covered elsewhere, but even if it has, maybe something has changed.

1. How old are you? 31
2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start? I started at 18 by writing music, though I directed some narrative home videos at 16 without a script.
3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do? It can go either way. But either way, you have to be able to just "know" when something works and when it doesn't. You have to be able to detach.
4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills... U.S. Cellular in their call center talking to angry customers.
5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many? 3: A play in 00 in Tulsa, a musical in 01 in Stockholm, Sweden, and a movie in 05 in Australia. Lots of other rumors of productions, but nothing materialized as of yet.
6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft? I would like to direct as well as write. Not interested in acting, and would produce only if I had to.
7. What writer(s) inspires you to write? The good ones.
8. What music inspires you to write? Hard to say. I don't write to music since I write at work.
9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one. The Simpsons
10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one. Hard choice. Star Wars - if you consider all 6 films to be one narrative storyline, it's very clever. More originality in this than most writers have in a lifetime.

1. How old are you?

22

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?

Since I was 17 -- not scripts. Journals, poems, etc.

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?

Some people, I'm sure, have a natural talent for it -- others, like myself, learn (or try to learn).

4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...

The one that pays the bills? My g/f's student loans! J/k -- that and my employment at an antique store .  

5. Have you had any scripts produced?

No.

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?

I've no interest in anything other than writing. I'm an introvert.

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?

Writers? mostly poets -- Everyone from Bukowski to Plath to Agoos. It's a wide range.

To be able to articulate in so few words what the rest of us take volumes to say is, I think, extraordinary. Their work is a felt expreience. I'd like to be able to evoke similar experiences in others. I'm not there yet.

Also, I take inspiration from bohemian artists -- Warhol, Dash Snow -- mostly the life-style. I love freedom!

8. What music inspires you to write?

My current script, the one I'm working on, was influenced by The Doors' "The End." I like the existential angle. It has a kinda "it's all meaningless. What's it matter if we die" feel. Even so, if I could include a soundtrack, it would be comprised of Moldy Peaches songs.

9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.

I'm not sure. I don't really like tv. Right now I enjoy Moral Orel, House, and Earl.

10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.

Life is Beautiful.

You haven't answered this yourself DDP.  Don't you think you should?

1. How old are you? I am old enough to not want to answer the question.
2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start? I started writing poems when I was a teen. I dabbled with script writing in college. I didn't start writing screenplays until decades later.
3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do? It?s a combination of both.
4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...Software developer. I think writing a screenplay is similar to writing a software application.
5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many? If self-produced counts then 1, Aileen, it?s about an alien internet predator.  I'm pretty sure I will self-produce Modern Ethics as well-I wrote it for that purpose.
6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft? I like to direct and I have a bit of experience doing it (from a previous career) but it is too stressful. I prefer the writing.
7. What writer(s) inspires you to write? Ideas inspire me to write.
8. What music inspires you to write? The music of conversation.
9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one. Changes every half-hour.
10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one. Changes every second.

Quoted from DDP 1. How old are you?

20 years young... or old whatever takes your fancy.

Quoted from DDP 2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?

I started writing songs (lyrics) around 14 or 15, started writing poetry around 16, and started writing screenplays at about 17 and a half.

Quoted from DDP 3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?

Both, it's 50/50. If you have a good story, you could screw up in the telling of it. Yet, if you're a good writer but have nothing interesting to tell, it'll be boring.

Quoted from DDP 4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...

Unemployed.

Quoted from DDP 5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?

Nope.

Quoted from DDP 6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?

I'd love to direct and contibute in producing my own stuff. If I can by some snowballs chance in hell become a success at it, I'd like to expand to produce and direct other's projects too.

Quoted from DDP 7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?

Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith mostly.

Quoted from DDP 8. What music inspires you to write?

classic rock, modern rock, alternative, and metal mostly. Deepends on what mood I'm in, or what the tone of the story is.

Quoted from DDP 9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.

Hard to say. maybe South Park or That 70's Show. Home Improvement and The Simpsons were great in their day too. Chappelle's Show is by far probably the funniest show ever though.

Quoted from DDP 10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.

Pulp Fiction.


What about you DDP? You didn't make with any answers. I feel jipped.

Quoted from Steve-Dave Unemployed.

This explains your ability to "pound 'em out!" J/k~! But I am jealous! I hate work!

Gotta get another beer,

Seth

Quoted from DDP Questions 1. How old are you?

24

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year and 7 months

Quoted from DDP 3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?

natural, but i learned to fine tone it ever since my coming to this site.

Quoted from DDP 4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...[/quote work for my dad, he owns a alarm system company. [quote=DDP] 5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?

nope

Quoted from DDP 6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?

writing but maybe small oart in my story to act on.

Quoted from DDP 7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?

ray charles and pan labrynth's sound track

Quoted from DDP 8. What music inspires you to write?

writer of prsion break

Quoted from DDP 9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.

prison break

Quoted from DDP 10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.

princess bride!



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Quoted from Seth This explains your ability to "pound 'em out!"

lol. It's funny that you say this, cuz I actually wrote 5 out of my 8 features when I was working.

1. How old are you?

29  

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?

27

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?

Both.

4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...

Retired lawyer currently working behind the cash register of a restaurant (ala Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty working at Mc. Donalds)

5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?

My writing is not developed enough to be produced; never sent a query in my life.

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?

Just writing.

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?

Every good movie and tv show inspires me to write; that's a lot of writers to mention.

8. What music inspires you to write?

It doesn't.

9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.

Lost.

10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.

Lord of the Rings.

1. How old are you?

18 Woo, legal drinking age.

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?

16 was when i started doing it out of fun and not just for assignments.

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?

Both, you need to nurture that natural talent.

4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...

Fruit & Veg Handler

5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?

I've only got as close as getting one optioned.

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?

I would love to direct and I wouldn't mind trying acting.

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?

The successful ones.

8. What music inspires you to write?

There a song for every mood. The Beatles never dissapoint... Well Revolution 9... The almost never dissapoint.

9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.

Without a doubt, Freaks & Geeks

10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.

Forrest Gump.

I'm also curious to your answers DDP.

1. How old are you?
16
2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?
My dad used to alwayas tell me and my siblings stories before putting us to bed at night.  In second grade I wrote one of these down, a story about my hampsters, and sent it into a group that occasionaly came to our school called "Childs Play" (which, looking back, is creepy).  Anyway, they wouyld pick three stories sent in from the school and act them out.  They chose mine (or my dads if you want to look at it that way--he does), and I thought it was really cool.  After that I kept writing little stories and i neight grade they turned from stories into scripts.
3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?
You need to enjoy writing to be good at it.
4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...
My parents pay the bills.  But I reff saturday mornings, walk dogs, babysit . . . odd jobs.
5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?
Unless you count childs play.....none.
6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?
Right now I'm doing some acting at my highschool.  I'm Lennox in "Macbeth", and currently being cast for a one act spring play.  So I'd like to act and also to direct.
7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?
Wes Anderson, I think, is my favorite screenplay writer.  M.T. Anderson is my favorite Novelist.
8. What music inspires you to write?
Alternative.
9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.
Lost. maybe arrested development or scrubs.
10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.
Rushmore.

1. How old are you?
- 22
2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?
- I started writing novels/stories when I was in Grade 8. I wrote a choose your own adventure about Mega Man and got an A.
3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?
- I think good writing is a learned talent. Nobody comes here or anywhere as the best and they have to grow in order to get to a new level.
4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...
- A Plastic Factory... I unload steel sheets and plastic. Dropped a 200 pound plastic sheet on my shoe and it crushed the steel toe. Did the same to my finger but got lucky.
5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?
- I'm not really worried about this part.
6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?
- I'm interested in all of it but it doesn't dominate my life.
7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?
- Writers really don't inspire me to write, life does.
8. What music inspires you to write?
- Whatever is in my computer i tunes player.
9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.
- Oz, yes the prison show.
10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.
- I don't like to place any above the other.

1. How old are you?  
34 (but I look 24)

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?  
I wrote my first short story at age 7 (a Sinbad epic 4 whole pages long).  Didn't write screenplays until I was 30.

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something people learn to do?
It's sort of a catch-22.  All you need is the desire and commitment to write, however if you have no natural ability you'll probably give up at some point along the way.

4. What is your current profession.  You know the one that pays the bills...
Courier for Canada Post.

5. Have you had any scripts produced?  If so, how many?
None but I did have one optioned by an amateur filmmaker.

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing or something else related to this craft?
Just writing.  I'll let others deal with that other stuff.

7. What writer(s) inspire you to write?
Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands)

8. What music inspires you to write?
Stuff from the seventies (The Doors, BeeGee's, Earth, Wind and Fire... ).  There's something about the feel from that decade that always lifts me up.

9. What's your all time favorite T.V. Show?
Wonder Years! (it's a nostalgia thing, I guess)

10. What's your all time favorite movie?
Paper Moon!

Quoted Text 1. How old are you?

Pushing 20, man.

Quoted Text 2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?

Screenwriting I've been doing since I was 12...so 8 years or so.

Quoted Text 3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?

Writing is a skill that everyone can acquire, but being a good writer, i.e. creativity and engaging the reader, is something special and I think is a natural talent.

Quoted Text 4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...

It's an independent thing.  Currently a full-time student.

Quoted Text 5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?

None.  I've had a good amount of offers from people asking to produce "Addiction" and "The Scorsese Club" but any of those that involved selling the script I turned down.

Quoted Text 6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?

A little bit of everything.

Quoted Text 7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?

None.

Quoted Text 8. What music inspires you to write?

Excellent music, i.e. the stuff found on my stupid myspace.

Quoted Text 9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.

Seinfeld

Quoted Text 10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1956)

1. How old are you? 20

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start? Writing, 15. Writing seriously, 18

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do? Both.

4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills... Student. (Currently) unemployed.

5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many? Zero .

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft? Directing but I'd be perfectly happy just to write.

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write? Dario Argento, Park Chanwook, Quentin Tarantino among others...

8. What music inspires you to write? Death metal/grindcore mostly.

9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one. Nip/Tuck.

10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one. Ichi The Killer.