as in long i mean as in 50 pages or more.

how old were you when you wrote it? how long was it? what was it about? did you think it turned out good? basicly tell me about it.

I started writing my first feature length before I did anything else. All in longhad, probably in 2000, maybe early 2001.

I then put it aside and read about screenwriting on and off for a few years, not really delving too deep into the subject. Then, during 2003, I found the screenplay and re-invested my time into learning the craft. I began to write some short screenplays to get my juices and confidence going, then I returned to my first script and competely overhauled it dozens of times until I finally finished it in Spring 2005. A long time!

It now takes me a few months to finish a script, not years.

Oh and it was/is called Devil's Peak.

My first, I started writing my senior year of high school and it's called "What Is "Normal"? and it's posted on this site actually. It took me about and it took me about a year to write and another six months or so of revisions and cuts and typing it out, and it's 203 pages long. Most woldn't want to read such a lengthy script probably, so it is kindof a handicap, but it's also what was necessary to tell the full story to the extent I needed to tell it to incorporate all of the components that I wanted to, and I'm really proud of it. Most would say that it's probably not my best, but it's definitely my favorite, and remains that way until this day. It came out the most natural screenplay I've written yet.

Quoted from MacDuff Oh and it was/is called Devil's Peak.

So you could actually say you sold your first script right? Very impressive.

How is that going? Just curious. Not much information on imdb.

It's going okay. The big stall right now is the financing. The original financing seems to have fallen through, so the producers are actively seeking additional funding to get the picture up and running. It's a long, slow process and sucks!!

The good thing is that we have an actor that is attached, so it helps sell the movie to financers.

Thanks for asking.

:-)

Thanks for the update, it's always interesting to know how these things work. I wish you good luck.

My first script was a musical script where I wrote the story and music, and I had someone else do the lyrics. I started writing it on my own in 1993 at 18, I went through two other people before I got someone to write lyrics in 1995. We bantered back and forth with him writing lyrics to music I wrote and me writing music to lyrics he wrote and then conversing about where I was going with the story.

The final product in 1997 whehn I was 22 was 55 pages (I think), but in musical theatre, a page can be 2-3 minutes due to the songs, and the run time of the show measured out to around 110 minutes with a variance of 5-10 mins depending on some variables in the show. Stage shows can be like that sometimes.

Now, this little jewel was full of plot holes and really too big for its own britches. I revisited the plot later and managed to find an easy trilogy in explaining all of the unexplained stuff the story was so big. It was called Amehr and involved a little cult town with a big brother-ish high priest ruling it. A reporter came to town looking for her brother who was killed many years before (although an earlier draft involved a co-worker killed for researching the town for a news story, but we felt the brother gave it a better connection and reasoning) and in doing so, she stirred up trouble for herself and our main guy. He did what he could to protect, but in the end she was captured anyway to be put to death for causing dissension among the priest's "flock." The original ending involved her being killed and the priest falling to his death.

Of course, I did then as I tend to do now, and write in pairs. About four months after I finished that musical, I wrote book, music and lyrics to a second show called One Night which measured out to a little over 60 pages, so around two hours long. You can actually read the libretto here.

I didn't write my first screenplay until 2001 at the age of 25. It was called Vengeance and it has been revised multiple times to the version that is posted on here under horror. And again, I wrote in pairs and The Soul Keeper (also posted here under Thriller) was written at almost the same time, and finished shortly thereafter.

My first feature was a comedy I wrote when I was thirteen.  It was 87 pages with somewhat decent formatting.

If this little kid can do it, any little kid can.

I'm working on my first feature length film. Its over 50 pages now, but I guess I can go ahead and say I wrote it while I was 14...but I'm still 14. And I'm still writing it.

I wrote my first script when I was 12, many moons ago.  It came to about 45 handwritten pages -- I have no idea how long it would be typed.

It was called "CLAWS" and it was about an attack on a pristine beach by giant killer crabs.

It was a piece of complete shite and you will never, ever see it so don't even ask.

Quoted from bert It was a piece of complete shite and you will never, ever see it so don't even ask.

Sounds like gold! You should totally post the 45 scanned pages.  ;D

I want to read CLAWS so badly you cannot believe it.  What happened to the poor inhabitants of Bristine Beach?

You guys gotta be kidding me.....

...and what do you think happened, Higgs -- all the swimmers got cut in half -- by giant claws!!

Quoted from bert You guys gotta be kidding me..... ...and what do you think happened, Higgs -- all the swimmers got cut in half -- by giant claws!!

That's so unique, it's crazy!!!! It's so crazy, I'm using multiple exclamation points for ridiculous emphasis!!!! Giant claws!!!! Cut in half!!!! Absolute genius!!!! Why hasn't Spielberg picked this up yet? Or Tarantino? Or....who else is making crap these days? :P

Quoted from bert You guys gotta be kidding me..... ...and what do you think happened, Higgs -- all the swimmers got cut in half -- by giant claws!!

Oh the horror!   The horror!  Cut in half?  I assume there was blood shed?  My god, don't answer, I can't bare it.

Bert, please, don't tell me any more, i don't think I could stand the horrible deaths suffered by all the poor people vacationing on the once lovely Bristine Beach.

Quoted from Higgonaitor Bert, please, don't tell me any more, i don't think I could stand the horrible deaths suffered by all the poor people vacationing on the once lovely Bristine Beach.

I used to vacation on Bristine Beach. The lovely surf. The warm ocean. The white sands. The gratuitious nudity. Ah, it was heaven.

Biohazard #1 - A Resident Evil and Biohazard #2 - Necropolis (I wrote the two at the same time and basically finished at the same time).

Written while on a road trip in B.C. I wrote most of #1 on the ferry traveling to and from Vancouver Island, and #2 was written on the road and at night when I couldn't sleep (yay for insomnia).

Haaaah - wanna hear a cute story?

When I was a kid, like seven or eight, I would make up book order forms (all by hand). I made up book titles, page counts, and prices (anywhere from two to six cents). Then I would go up and down my grandparents’ neighborhood selling them.

After I got all the orders; I would go back to my grandparents’ house, gather up paper, pencils, a stapler, etc., and make up the books. I’d draw the cover picture and write each one, making it fit the title and the page count. All by hand. If more than one of the same book was sold, I would meticulously copy it making sure each word was in the same spot as the “original” so it wouldn’t mess up my page count. It was so tedious it sometimes took me the entire weekend. Needless to say, often my main characters died at the end just because I didn’t have another page to continue -- haha!

Then, when I was finished, I would deliver them and collect my pennies and nickels. I was happy if I made enough for the soda machine across the street.


I know I got off subject a little but my first script was sooo bad, I’m so ashamed, I’ve sworn to destroy it and make sure no one ever sees it.

Quoted from Breanne Mattson I know I got off subject a little but my first script was sooo bad, I’m so ashamed, I’ve sworn to destroy it and make sure no one ever sees it.

"The Lord of the Scripts" Breanne travels with a few short friends to throw her first script into mount Doom before the evil ones get their hands on it.  "One script to rule them all!"

Quoted from bert It was called "CLAWS" and it was about an attack on a pristine beach by giant killer crabs.

So it's like JAWS with crabs???

That's high concept, man.

My first attempt in screenwriting was in the midle of 70s and begin of 80s.

It was based on treatment written by my dear brother. - THE CAPOEIRA - (a type of marcial art from the slaves Africans)  It was an adventure story set on Bahia, Braziland was about a revange. After to see his father killed by a moderns pirates, the young scape from them when their boat splode in the midle of the sea. The boy growns up trying to know who killed his father and so on...

It was a great experience for me since then I decide to write more offten.

I didn't actually start writing until I was at university where I took a couple of semesters in screenwriting. As a child I never really wrote anything but I read a lot of novels and watched a lot of movies.

My first screenplay was a 30 pager written for the class. It was a crime caper about a bungling car thief who's ordered to steal a white van to be used in a robbery the next day. After many failed attempts he steals an ice-cream van from an ex-boxer who then tracks him down and beats the living sh*t out of him. It was poorly written and the story didn't make any sense but it was quite funny in places.

I wish SS had been around back then. I recently found the original script I submitted to my tutor. A poorly formatted 30 page script and all I got back from the tutor was a short paragraph saying he liked it but it needed a clear protagonist. Having said that, he did give me the encouragement to continue writing so I guess I owe him for that.

Snatched from my baby carriage by gypsies at the age of one, Nanny's attention
being elsewhere (There was talk of a young soldier) I figured that what followed
would, one day, make a good movie and so decided to keep a diary. At that age
I couldn't write but I still have that blank diary. Boy, if those pages could speak.
Anyhow, Old Dimitri used to tell the tale of my abduction on many a night round
the roaring, gypsy camp fire. I couldn't hear it enough- Everyone else used to fall
asleep inmediately. My gypsy mother used to sell Lucky Heather all over town.
LH was my gypsy sister, ma was arrested. It's all in my story.Where was I? Ah,
my first screenplay. I suppose that was it and some day I'm gonna polish it 'til it
gleams, run it through the spell-checker and pop it through a studio door. Who
knows, I might even meet my real parents at the premiere.