How do you write stream of consciousness?  Read my post in:  

Multiple Flash Backs - Change of Location

Really though, I think it's more unconscious streams when we take ideas and go with them.  I'm goofing off in the thread I know, but there's something around every corner if you keep yourself open.  I really did grab hold of this idea of fighting and instead of thinking about guns and bombs going off, I was thinking about the good old fashioned fist fights.

Yes, good old fashioned fist fights and that led me to thinking about the glorious days of old when real men dropped their gloves so they could grab hold of each other's jerseys and do this kind of clunky ice fight, usually more of an embrace.  OK well, they managed to sometimes get in some good punches and if it was a good night, you could say, "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out!"  Yes and a really good night had a whole bunch going at one time:  The brawls!  Oh yeah baby!  But now you  hardly get that anymore....and fighting....  Where's the fun in fighting anymore?  

Gosh darn guns and nuclear weapons go and take all the fun out of it.

Well, this steam of consciousness can really be a great tool-- a kind of helium for the same old premises and plots.  On the other hand, it can be impossible to work with at times because it can knock down your outlines and messes with neat little genre parameters you had drawn out.

Anyways, that's why it's such hard work and people who don't write much might look at a neat little short script of say twenty pages and think, "That's easy!  I'll take a crack at that."

Short scripts and short stories are every bit as hard as longer works.  I know of one author who swore that she couldn't write shorts.  For the longest time she said she just couldn't do it.  But then one day things just clicked and once she did one, she knew she could do more.

The trick I think is finding that equilibrium between structure and those free streaming thoughts.  But that is so much easier said than done.  That's that story craft and working with all of the layers and integrating them.  Trouble is though, I think that they are very opposing ways of thinking and when you've got one, the other is sleeping.

A book that I'd like to recommend which I refer back to when I feel I need a structural nudge is called "Writing For Story" by Jon Franklin.  It's not a script writing book, but all the same, I think it's a really good book for an apprentice writer to have on their shelf.

Ok, I'm going back to my old time hockey memories now...

Don Cherry and Howie Meeker coloring up that brawl!  Ooh Tiger Williams!  

Mike, that was a cute clip, but I really want to say that I am against drugs.  I understand how kids fall into their use and then it keeps on going into their adult lives, but I'm thankful that I was able to raise my children in such a way where they never felt the need to do them.

I like to joke around, but I feel very strongly against the use of drugs and I've been working with another writer here, helping him polish his script which deals with the potential end results of this kind of lifestyle.

I think I'll post a plug for him now because I know how hard he's been working on it.

Yes, like I said, the clip is cute, but it's a bad road that our young people on this site should steer clear of.   :'(

Parental talk over.

I agree.  Drugs = Bad!  Coffee = Good!

Yes, coffee was one of those drugs that had always been my vice.

An old friend of mine, she was Mormon and didn't even drink that.  I had always made her herb teas; yet we know that many herbs are drugs.

Well, if you're going to do a drug hopefully it will be one that grows naturally and isn't some kind of chemical concoction like crystal meth.

Sandra

Quoted from Sandra Elstree. An old friend of mine, she was Mormon and didn't even drink that.  I had always made her herb teas; yet we know that many herbs are drugs.

Yeah, Mormons don't drink caffeine of any kind.  Even in soda.

Quoted from Sandra_E .Well, if you're going to do a drug hopefully it will be one that grows naturally and isn't some kind of chemical concoction like crystal meth.

Nope, I can safely say that I won't be venturing down the drug taking road.  I've seen some of the completely random and messed up things it causes people to do and say, and I would hate to be like that.

Drugs are bad!  Stay in School!  Help old ladies across the street instead of just pushing them out into traffic!