Quoted from Ayham Bert's English is a second language??!!!

Fortunately, Inuktitut is very close to English, so it wasn't much of a challenge.

Those who know English as a second language should know it enough if they wish to participate here...including Bert.  I'm just saying that I won't jump on their cases as much as I would an English-speaking member (English as a first language).

I've seen scripts here that were filled with typos, misspellings (there is a difference between the two), and text messaging.  Unless you're writing your script on a blackberry, you shouldn't abbreviate every word.

And that goes double for Bert!


Phil

Quoted from bert Fortunately, Inuktitut is very close to English, so it wasn't much of a challenge.

Just learned something new!

Bert rides a little yellow bus on the information super highway....


Phil

One thing I've learned, the hard way, for those who speak or write in English as a second language, during the writing process do NOT think in your native language and then translate, that's where most mistranslations come from. Train yourself to think in English, straight, on the rocks!...And life would be a little easier from there on.

Quoted from dogglebe Bert rides a little yellow bus on the information super highway....

We like to call it the Magic Bus, thank you.  Too much, that Magic Bus.

Hey, Ayham -- I am so NOT an Eskimo, OK?

But even without Eskimo heritage, I can be about 99.9% sure Inuktitut isn't anything like English.  They've got, like, 40 words for snow.  And I don't even know what blubber looks like.  Unless it looks like Phil.

I have no idea what Phil is talking about.

Not the first time that's happened, frankly.  Won't be the last.

So Inuktitut is an Eskimo's language? I learned something new as well.

I actually had to look up Inuktitut to know what it is!...So, now we know it's a language...spoken in a cold area...And Bert, is that Robin Williams? In a mask and orange hair??

I'll have to say I learned something new as well. I thought when I read English was not Bert's first language, someone was being facetious, but hey, maybe not. Interesting.

Oh well, it doesn't mean you're getting any more slack.

And anyone who would type a script on a Blackberry probably drinks their own bath water too.

If there'd been a choice, I'd have picked something more outgoing than writing. Like acting and singing, as a profession.

Since everything I observe hits a button to express my version of it, certain scenes jump in my mind. They don't leave till I get them on paper. It's exhausting, and often unwanted. It's happened since I was a kid.

The process keeps changing. I used to fall in love with my characters, and write plots to accomodate them. Now, it's more open to strange events, with suitable characters to play out those events. Then, back to character love. Mix and match. Take it as it comes.  Guess my heart really lies with characters and dialogue overall.

I've never used outlines, because the first draft spits out the essence I'm after. The big fun is seeing life spring from the keyboard. If there wasn't sheer magic in that, I'd find an easier occupation.

Quoted from George Willson And anyone who would type a script on a Blackberry probably drinks their own bath water too.

Laugh all you want, Jordan, but I can lift a car clean off the ground with my thumbs!


Phil

Quoted from MonetteBooks The process keeps changing. I used to fall in love with my characters, and write plots to accomodate them. Now, it's more open to strange events, with suitable characters to play out those events. Then, back to character love. Mix and match. Take it as it comes.  Guess my heart really lies with characters and dialogue overall.

I'm always developing characters which wait to be placed in a story somewhere.  I have a couple a dozen fully-developed one in my head now (the doctors call the 'voices').  When I'm ready to write something about them, I come up with a story.


Phil

I have a 7 minute comedy short that should post pretty soon, featuring 12 obnoxious characters for you to love/hate. Title: "Parody High School".

So. When it does, y'all come over and see if our humor clashes or jives. I'd like to get to know some of you better. Humor's a good ice-breaker, as this piece intends.

Put some of your own characters in comedy shorts, guys. See how they hold up to the bouquets and brickbats. Gee, this feels almost like a stand-up comic tryout. That's pretty scary. But I gotta have fun, don't you?

I've written three comedy shorts, one of which is in production.  I'm concentrating on feature-length scripts right now and am juggling two as we speak...er, type.


Phil

Hey, Monette, Have you tried your hands at stand-up comedy at all?