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

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

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

Haha, sorry about that. Here are mine:

1. How old are you? 23
2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start? I've only seriously begun to write this year. Before that, what I mostly wrote was for school and college.
3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do? I used to think that it was talent but now I think it has to be a combination of both. Plus, you need to have passion, that helps a lot.
4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills... I tutor students in my local university
5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many? None, yet.
6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft? I'd be interested in all of the above.
7. What writer(s) inspires you to write? Mostly Stephen King. I love his writing style.
8. What music inspires you to write? A variety of music, depending on what I am writing.
9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one. The X-Files
10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.  Brokeback Mountain


PS: I'm NOT a guy. Some members have assumed this. I'm a female.  ;D

Good call DDP, nice to see you answer your own questions.

I must say, that was quite original for a new member, to get a lot of other members to reveal stuff about themselves, I'm impressed...

Glad to have you onboard... Welcome..


Kevan

Quoted from Kevan Good call DDP, nice to see you answer your own questions.

Yeah, sorry for not doing it at the very beginning.

Quoted Text I must say, that was quite original for a new member, to get a lot of other members to reveal stuff about themselves, I'm impressed...

Really? Well, *your* post in this thread impressed me tremendously. You seem to be very experienced in this field and I will probably be emailing you for tips and advice later on. Haha. Hope you don't mind!  ;)

Quoted Text Glad to have you onboard... Welcome..

Thank you very much.

Quoted from DDP Really? Well, *your* post in this thread impressed me tremendously. You seem to be very experienced in this field and I will probably be emailing you for tips and advice later on. Haha. Hope you don't mind!  ;)

I'll help anybody with whatever I can. If you need some help or advice regarding screenwriting, sure, no problem.. I'll PM you my email address.

Quoted from DDP Thank you very much.

You're welcome  ;D


Kevan

1. How old are you?

18

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

Almost five years. I was 13 and I was shit.

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

A little bit of both.

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

Government pays my way. Saps.

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 would be so freaking awesome, probably better than writing. Producing would also be an exciting experience and acting I wouldn't mind diping my beak into. I also have interest in editing.

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

Does myself count?

8. What music inspires you to write?

I leave listening of music to other people. I don't go in for these backdoor shenanigans.

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

The Sopranos. AWWWWWWW YEAAH!!!

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

The Silence of the Lambs. AWWWWWWW YEAAH!!!


Cheers, Chismeister.

Come on, are we really resorting to dick jokes? First that stupid ass dream thread and now dick jokes at 3 in the morning?

Sometimes I wish they would call me into work and by the time I get home one of the other mods delete these posts and I don't have to see them.

1. How old are you?

33

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

Pretty much since I learned to write. I didn't start writing screenplays until about 5-6 years ago.

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

You can't really learn to be creative, but being creative doens't make you a good writer. You can always learn the aspects of writing.

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

Aviation underwriter

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

None, then again I haven't really tried to get one produced.

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

Just the writing, ma'am, just the writing.

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

There's a few that have and continue to inspire me, like...

Aaron Sorkin
Jess Walther
Stephen King
The Coen Bros.
Frank Herbert

...to name a few.

8. What music inspires you to write?

Smile Empty Soul among others.

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

West Wing.

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

The Big Lebowski.

1. How old are you?  

I'm 21 years old, turning 22 in may.


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

I've been writing since I first read Dave Barry turns forty when I was 10. I've been writing screenplays for about 2 years.


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

A bit of both. There are rules that have to be learned, but part of writing is definitely intuitive.


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

I'm a student in college, and I do work study at the computing center.


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

Yes. 1 short was produced through my school's film club. It's called "A Platonic Conversation About Chairs," and there is a link to the script in my signiture.


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

I want to do it all. I just want to become famous. I produce (whatever the hell that means), edit, direct, and act. But I think my biggest talent is for writing.


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

Charlie Kaufman (he went to my high school), Wes Anderson, and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.


8. What music inspires you to write?

Sappy love music and 80's rock.


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

Sports Center


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

Royal Tennenbaums

1. How old are you?  29, yeah i'm pushing 30

2. How long have you been writing? Or what age did you start?  About 2 years, so not long really.

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something people learn to do?  I think you can learn the basics like format but you need inspiration and imagination.

4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills... The Royal Mail, so that would be a Postman.

5. Have you had any scripte produced? If so, how many?  None, but people have shown an interest in 'The Big Stiff' and seen as though it is only a first draft I was quite surprised.

6. Are you only interesting in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?  Well I'd love to direct my own script but thats a big far away dream.  My better half has a degree in Media so I suppose I would have to involve her too lol.

7. What writer(s) inspire you to write?  Tough one...I love the Coen brothers and I'm loving Simon Pegg and edgar Wright but I suppose I could throw another few in there but I like to say I inspire myself.

8. What music inspires yu to write?  I think it depends what I'm writing.  I'm listening to Rammstein while writing my feature because its dark and moody, but I suppose I listen to a wide range really.

9. What's your all time favorate TV show? Just one. Oh um....Only Fools and Horses.  If I could pick 2...Spaced.

10. What's your all time favorate movie? Just one.  Easy this one, City of God.  I just think it's fantastic.  Incredible emotion from a bunch of kids that aren't even actors, they just happened to live in the slums.

1. How old are you?

Bite me.

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

Teens.  My uncle wrote for T.V.  Mash, Magnum P.I., and some other big ones.  He is easily my coolest relative, but no longer in the business.

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

Anybody can get "good" with practice, but to move beyond that, I think you need natural, inborn talent.  Same with music, I suspect.

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

Biochemistry grad student.  That pays, actually -- but a lot more once I get outta' here.

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

Nope.

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?

Stephen King.  People spot him in my work all the time, and I never deny it.  And Michael Crichton -- a scientist turned scripwriter -- geez, I would sell my soul to be that guy.

8. What music inspires you to write?

Nothing.  I need total silence.  The dead of night is always best.

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

"The Nightstalker" at the time -- but when I watch it now, it just looks kinda' dumb haha.

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

Blade Runner.

1. How old are you?  

25

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

Hardly wrote a thing until I was around 19 and took a few screenwriting classes at uni. I've always been an avid reader though.

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

Both.

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

Writer/Game Designer

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

4 shorts so far, 1 short as script supervisor. One video game to be released later this year and hopefully another video game credit by 2008/9

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

I've done some video editing at work and I love it. If I fail as a writer, I'll probably try my hand at editing. I'm also really into game design. It's a great medium for creativity Maybe sometime in the future I'd like to produce something, but I doubt I'd ever want to direct.

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

Too many to list. The first book that really inspired me to write was Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, but I wouldn't say I'm necessarily influenced by that style of writing. I draw influences from everywhere.

8. What music inspires you to write?  

I listen to all kinds of music when I'm not writing, but I tend to write in silence. I let my imagination compose the soundtrack to my movie as I write it.

9. What's your all time favorite TV show? Just one.

Blackadder

10. What's your all time favorite movie? Just one.  


ahhh... different answer every day of the week. Today... The Shining

1. How old are you?

I'll take the 5th.

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

7 years, but I'm a slow writer, so I haven't written a hell of a lot in that time.

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

You need an active imagination and a strong work ethic.  

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

I work in a needle exchange, providing clean injecting equipment and education to injecting drug users.

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

None.

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

I'm just interested in writing because that's all my budget will allow. I made two films at film school in 2000. My claim to fame is that the star of my major short film landed a regular role in a TV cop show. He is also in the film Ghost Rider.

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

Arron Sorkin, Alan Ball.

8. What music inspires you to write?  

Nothing a write in silence, but I'm really digging post rock stuff at the moment

9. What's your all time favorite TV show? Just one.

Six Feet Under.

10. What's your all time favorite movie? Just one.  

Fight Club. I named my first son Tyler  because of it.  

Well, what the heck....

1. How old are you?

15

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

Started off at 10 or eleven with poems and other things.

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

I think it's a natural talent when it comes to poems, lyrics, etc, but not so much with essays and reports. You just have to have a good vocabulary for that. Also, like someone else already said, you have to have some experience at life itself in order to be a good writer.

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

None. I don't have a job yet.

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

Nope.

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

If music counts, then I'm planning on learning. I hope it's not too late 'cause I've always been fascinated with all music, from Death Metal to film score. I'm also interested in editing, to a lesser extent.

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

Edgar Allan Poe and Pablo Neruda mainly, although there are too many to list.

8. What music inspires you to write?

None, really. My own feelings and experiences inspire me to write. Music just relaxes me for it, whether it is heavy or soft.

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

Oh, damn. I dunno!! :S  

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

These questions are cruel! It's impossible to pick only one movie :(

1. I'm as old as the the laser beam

2. I write since I'm 18 (well, almost thirty years ago…)

3.I think both. But you have to improve day after day, script after script. My motto is "Go to bed more clever than when you woke up"

4. I work for the French administration. I have to pay my bills, my cigarettes and my little boy's toys…

5. One of my first scripts runs the Cannes Festival back in 1988. Since I joined SS in last June, I have 6 shorts in preproduction, but nothing done yet.

6. I'd love to direct but don't have technical knowledges yet. Anyway, when I write, I "see" the whole movie in my head, shot after shot.

7.Joseph Mankiewicz, Lawrence Kasdan, Wim Wenders, François Truffaut

8. Jazz, Country Music, Classical (Satie, Debussy or Ravel)

9. Must be "Mad About You"

10. Just one? "Citizen Kane" (everything you have to learn is in it)


Michel 8)

Been away a few days, like this thread... it's very "Getting to Know You-ish"...

1. How old are you? 19

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start? 15

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do? A bit of both I guess. I'd like to think it's a natural talent and that I've finally found mine, but I guess people learn and improve every time they write.

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

5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many? 0... but a couple of college students have took interest... not sure if that means produced...

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

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write? Quentin T, Wes Anderson, Zach Braff, Kaufman, Rodriguez, Sofia Coppola... and a few others.

8. What music inspires you to write? David Bowie, Midlake, The Shins, Muse... mostly easy listening stuff

9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one. At the min? Scrubs.

10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one. Even though I love Garden State, it has to be The Matrix. Can't stop watching it.

!- i'am 17 years old

2- About 2 weeks lol (honestly)

3- I believe that anyone can make a succeful movie, they just need to believe it themselves.

4- I'm a student

5- No not yet

6- I have interest in directing too i guess

7-  Ted Elliot, Terry Rosio, Richard wenk, Frances Walsh, Peter Jackson

8- Soundgraden, The Tragically Hip, G&R, Audioslave, breaking Benjamin.

9- Arrested Development

10- Tears Of The Sun.

Questions

1. How old are you?
18

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?
I've pissed most of my life away writing stories and from 13 on writting scripts as well.

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?
It's a mixture of both. I beleive, much like anything, to be truly great in you an inborn talent but it never hurts to hone your skills either.

4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...
I'm going to be the lame guy who says he doesn't really have a job but sometimes runs papers on weekends with his family for some extra cash.

5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?
No. I'm still unproduced.

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?
I've done some directing. Small shorts and such.

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?
You guys.  Or maybe it's the fact that I enjoy crafting a story. I love seeing the story take shape and grow. Thrilling, really.

8. What music inspires you to write?
Depends on the scene I'll listen to anything if it gets me writing and has the right beats for pacing.

9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.
All time, can't say but I'm digging Scrubs right now.

10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.
Evil Dead II - I know I'm a huge loser.

Quoted from Martin Blackadder

I love that show!!
I have all of them on tape, but my son took them with him when he moved out.

Red Dwarf is a close second! My daughter stole that one when she went to Georgia Tech!

All time favorite Brit-com however might be Fawlty Towers, but they only made twelve episodes!  >:(

Well there is Reginald Perrin too........

1. How old are you?
Fifteeen!

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?
For around two years! Well, even when I was younger I always wrote little scripts for class plays and such but not until I was like thirteen, I actually got into formatting and such.

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?
In mine it was definately something I learned to do!

4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...
Well, I'm still in High School, but I work at Hollister Co.

5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?
None

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?
Mostly interested in directing! But I love it all!

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?
A wide variety but I currently look up to Zach Braff and Paul Haggis

8. What music inspires you to write?
Indie surf rock bands

9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one.
The O.C. will always be my favourite ... even know it ends in one episode :|

10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one.
I'd have to say Cruel Intentions! As random as a movie that is, its one I can watch over and over again and I just love it!

Quoted from tomson I love that show!!

Life without Blackadder is like a broken pencil...

(in Melchett's private quarters. The general puts on an impressive red jacket. Darling is with him.)

Melchett: (after a few sounds of self-satisfaction) How do I look, Darling?

Darling: Girl-bait, sir. Pure bloody girl-bait.

Melchett: Moustache? Bushy enough?

Darling: Like a privet hedge, sir.

Melchett: Good, because I want to catch a particularly beautiful creature in this bush tonight.

Darling: You'll have her coming out of your moustache for a week, sir.

Melchett: God, it's a spankingly beautiful world and tonight's my night. I know what I'll say to her. 'Darling...'

Darling: (mistaken that the general's addressing him) Yes sir?

Melchett: What?

Darling: Um, I don't know, sir.

Melchett: Well don't butt in! (exhales) 'I want to make you happy, darling'.

Darling: Well, that's very kind of you sir.

Melchett: Will you kindly stop interrupting? If you don't listen, how can you tell me what you think? (continues) 'I want to make you happy, darling. I want to build a nest for your ten tiny toes. I want to cover every inch of your gorgeous body in pepper and sneeze all over you.'

Darling: I really think I must protest!

Melchett: What is the matter with you, Darling?

Darling: Well, it's all so sudden, I mean the nest bit's fine, but the pepper business is definitely out!

Melchett: How dare you tell me how I may or may not treat my beloved Georgina?

Darling: Georgina?

Melchett: Yes, I'm working on what to say to her this evening.

Darling: Oh yes. Of course. Thank God.

Melchett: Alright?

Darling: Yes, I'm listening, sir.

Melchett: Honestly Darling, you really are the most graceless, dim-witted pumpkin I ever met.

Darling: I don't think you should say that to her.

(Melchett groans)

Quoted from tomson I love that show!! I have all of them on tape, but my son took them with him when he moved out. Red Dwarf is a close second! My daughter stole that one when she went to Georgia Tech!

Oh my Pia, and Martin

I too own all the Blackadders and until recently own every single Red Dwarf episode on video.  I'm thinking of getting them again on dvd but it will cost a small fortune.

In my opinion though Red Dwarf went down hill when one of the writers left,I think it was Rob Grant.  The show turned more into one liners than the funny stories that had gone before.

As for Blackadder, simply one of the best shows ever, especially the forth series.  The final shot of the final episode still moves me.

Quoted from tomson All time favorite Brit-com however might be Fawlty Towers, but they only made twelve episodes!

What?!? Is that true? I'm sure I've seen more than twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers before.  :o

Nope. They only ever made two series, each one had six episodes.

It's a shame because it is the funniest British comedy I've ever seen.


Cheers, Chismeister.

1. How old are you?   17

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

I've been writing scripts for about 8 months now, but have wanted to write for years.

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

A combination of things really. You can be talented in the way that you have a good eye for creativity but if we are going by screenwriting, as it is a craft, i would say good writing for screen would be a lot of learning the medium of film.

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

Unemployed, gimme a break big exams comin up :P

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

None, yet.

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

recently taken an interest in editing. Would like to act, got a Higher in Drama which is a big qualification. Directing also but Screenwriting mostly.

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

Charlie Kaufman, Paul Haggis, Neil Purvis & Robert Wade, M. Night Shylyman, Zack Braff, Tarrantino, Damon and Affleck - These 2 guys have inspired me so much and i believe it is guys like these who inspire writers like us everyday

8. What music inspires you to write?

None.

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

Too many. I do love Friends. Prison Break is awesome.

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

You can't just pick one.  Good Will Hunting, Goodfellas, LOTR, Garden State, American Beauty. This list goes on.

1. How old are you?

Eighteen.

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

Since I was fifteen.

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

It's a skill that needs to be honed but at base it's a natural talent.

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

I work at Safeway and Staples, and believe it or not I do actually get paid for some of the work I do in film...

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

One, although I'm unclear on its status at this point.

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

I write, direct, and edit.

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

Tarantino inspired me to begin (hey, I was fifteen).  People like Steinbeck, Conrad, Milton, Spillane (which one doesn't match the others...) keep me at it.

8. What music inspires you to write?

Classical inspires scenes in my head.  I write TO classical, Hans Zimmer, and occasionally Come Clean by Hilary Duff on loop for seven hours.

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

Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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

I would have to say The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

1. How old are you?

16

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

I've been writing since about four years ago, maybe. Somewhere when I was in 6th grade. I wrote short stories and then started moving on to scripts.

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

I say it's both. Some people, maybe like George Lucas or someone, can be a natural writer, while others learn to become screenwriters, like me.

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

I do work at a movie theater, but I'm quitting, so I'm going to try and get to Old Navy and see what happens. Though I don't have any bills to pay...

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

I wouldn't say it's being produced, but I have someone filming one of my scripts, Daisy

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

I'm interested in writing, acting, and directing.

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

James Gunn (Dawn of the Dead '04)

8. What music inspires you to write?

Alternative rock I guess.

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

Dead Like Me (even though it's canceled)

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

Dawn of the Dead '04


Sean

You know, most members here are a lot younger than I had expected. This is neither a bad or a good thing, just surprising and very interesting. :-)

1. How old are you?

24

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

I started writing when I was six, I started script writing when I was 22.

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

There has to be something rough to work with but much of writing is learned.  The more you have in the rough catagory when starting, the less you have to polish.

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

Stay-at-home-mom.  And let me tell you, it's a busy job.

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

None yet but three are on the slate this year so I'm hoping for the best.

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

I would like to know how it all works but at the end of the day, I'm just a writer.

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

All of them.  I love books.

8. What music inspires you to write?

Mainly intrumental and sound tracks.  No words to get in the way of my thoughts.

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

At this point in my life, CSI, but when I was younger Matlock and Murder She Wrote had a pretty good fight with each other over that spot.

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

I would have to say Ever After which is really unusual because I don't like girl oriented movies, but that one was amazing.

I guess I'll go along with the crowd. : )

1. How old are you? 15

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start? I started writing pretend play by plays for baseball at around age 9, at the age of 10 I started to actually begin writing screenplays.

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do? I say natural talent, the first script I wrote on notebook paper was 67 pages, which is decent for a 10 year old in my book.

4. What is your current profession? I'm a student in high school.

5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many? None, I don't think screenplay agencies, or just individual companies want to film some of the scripts I've written. Mainly, because of age.

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft? I would do anything to call my work my own, including writing, directing, and producing. I also don't want some guy picking the soundtrack. : )

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write? Ummm... Stephen King probably, just because of the fact that he is horror genius. Even though I utterly hate writing horror screenplays.

8. What music inspires you to write? All sorts of things, usually I listen to music that fits my script that I'm writing.

9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Family Guy.

10. What is your all time favorite movie? There's too many, but the Departed is certainly up there along with the Warriors and Pulp Fiction.

Age?
1. 34'ish

Started Writing?
2. Stories - 14?  Scripts - 27

Natural or Learned Talent?
3. Natural talent.  Try listening to someone tell a story on a talk radio show.  Now imagine that on paper.  Besides, creativity is a God given talent.

Job?
4. pffft... Accountant, go fig!

Produced Works?
5. hmmm, I guess you could say someone produced my short films in school.  Someone rented the equipment and the van.

Other Interests?
6. Directing!  Need that artistic control!  I was an artist before I started writing.

Inspired Writers?
7. None.  I like my own ideas and writing style.  Although I loved Gary Larson and his Farside.

Inspired Music?
8. Movie scores, bigtime!  Talkin' Williams, Horner, Elfman, Goldsmith, Rosenthal...  If I have writer's block I bust out the headphones and that's it...

Favorite TV Show?
9. Mystery Science Theater 3000.  I need to laugh, afterall I'm an accountant.

Favorite Movie?
10.  Whshew!  hmmm, Live Action movie? Star Wars (actually the whole saga). What more can you ask for in a movie?  Animated movie? Secret of Nimh.  I love the creativity and artwork.

I'm adding question 11, just for me.  What's my favorite radio program?  Coast to Coast AM!  

1. How old are you?

21...and a half. Yesterday.

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

I've been writing crappy poems and silly short-stories since I was 15. Scripts since last year.

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

Both. I believe storytelling is a natural gift, and turning it into a script is craftmanship you learn along the way. Or don't.

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

I do freelance subtitle translation for movies from English to Danish when I'm not studying.

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

Nope. Never tried.

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

Only writing as of right now.

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

Different people at different times. Right now Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene.

8. What music inspires you to write?

Regina Spektor. Definitely. Every one of her songs is a short story.

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

Just one, huh? I was gonna go for The Simpsons, but haven't watched that show since season 10. So...I'm gonna go with Freaks and Geeks.

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

Probably Leon.

1. 17, but I'll be 18 in less than a week!
2. I've been writing for about 2 years now.
3. I think it's learned, at least I hope it is!
4. I work at Dairy Queen
5. Nope
6. I'd kinda like to direct, that'd be alot of fun
7. All the writers on this site!
8. I've never had music inspire me to write
9. Survivor
10. Gladiator

1. 17, going on 18 - on the next Saturday :)
2. I've been writing for like 4 years already, started in 13... anyway, I think just the ones since 15 are worth anything... writing novels and stories mostly... I started writing scripts like a year ago.
3. I'm not sure, but I think it's more about talent. But as for nearly everything, you can learn it too...
4. Being student on the high school
5. Not yet.
6. I wouldn't mind doing some directing... but I'm not sure I'd be good...
7. Stephen King, William Golding, J.D.Salinger...
8. Sonata Arctica, Savatage, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Mozart's Requiem, Tchaikovsky, Barber...
9. X-Files
10. Stand By Me

PS: sorry for my english, I know it's poor... I'm from Czech Republic

1. How old are you? IM IN MY 20'S
2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start? COUPLE YEARS
3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do? I THINK SOME PEOPLE HAVE MORE NATURAL TALENT THAN OTHERS, BUT WRITING IS AN CRAFT THAT CAN BE LEARNED WITH PRACTICE.
4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills... FULL TIME STUDENT.
5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many? NOPE
6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft? ONLY INTERESTED IN BEING A WRITER
7. What writer(s) inspires you to write? ALL THE GOOD ONES.
8. What music inspires you to write? I DONT WRITE TO MUSIC
9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one. LOST
10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one. ALIENS

1. How old are you?...30
2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?...I started at about 10 give or take a few years.
3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do?...Both, I feel it takes both. You know the old adage, to write what you know? Well living a life similar to your characters helps but you could always use your research and observation skills to write a believable character. The feeling behind their emotions is a different story though IMO
4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills...?...Writing
5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many?...Yes, as cowriter and in projects in the process of being filmed
6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft?...Interested in all aspects
7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?...My Mother
8. What music inspires you to write?...My own and anything that catches my ear that excentuates the mood of the piece.
9. What is your all time favorite tv show? Just one...X-Files
10. What is your all time favorite movie? Just one...Amistad

--Kotton

1. How old are you?
17

2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start?
11 or 12

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...
Blockbuster

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

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

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write?
Tyler Perry, Brandon Massey, Bret Ellis, Jeffrey Reddick

8. What music inspires you to write?
whatever

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

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

1. How old are you? 22


2. How long have you been writing? or what age did you start? Since I was 18

3. In your experience, is good writing a natural talent or something that people learn to do? I believe it's something that people can learn .


4. What is your current profession? You know, the one that pays the bills... Prep work at a  italian restaurant.

5. Have you had any scripts produced? If so, how many? None

6. Are you only interested in writing or also producing, directing, or something else related to this craft? I want to get my hands in it all. Write,direct,edit..ect.

7. What writer(s) inspires you to write? George Romero, John Landis, Stephen King

8. What music inspires you to write? Depends

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

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

Quoted Text 1. How old are you?

22

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

Around the age 13... I think.

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

I think both are possible.

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

I'm a manager for TDS Corp.

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

Yes. Three. Plus two I have produced myself.

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

...also directing and acting.

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

Stephen King mostly.

Quoted Text 8. What music inspires you to write?

The Doors, Nine Inch Nails and Gary Jules... but there are others as well.

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

Roseanne.

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

The Shawshank Redemption.