#ScreenWriter

[thelonelyqueenofthenight]

Rest in peace and paradise.🕊️🕊️🕊️

David Lynch has passed away at 78 years old.

He was a visionary film director, visual artist, musician, and actor.

He will be missed.

[gerardlesudiste]

Jamie Neumann

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[yourdailyqueer]

Dani Balbi

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 3 April 1989 

Ethnicity: Afro Brazilian

Occupation: Politician (Communist Party of Brazil), professor, screenwriter, activist

Note 1: First transgender parliamentarian in the Rio de Janeiro state's legislative assembly and first transgender person to be awarded a doctorate.

Note 2: On 28 June 2023, International LGBTQIA+ Pride Day, the state assembly building was lit with the Rainbow Flag on her initiative.

[fervi-g]

Adaptation (2002) dir. Spike Jonze

[leighlew3]

I have this one intense, smaller-scale action thriller with a pretty epic love story built-in and just hear me out with this dream casting…

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

TODAY’S FROZEN MOMENT - 75th Anniversary Here is the mugshot of Dalton Trumbo from today in 1950…. Trumbo was a prolific and successful screenwriter who got blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee of Joseph McCarthy… 75 years ago today, he traveled from New York to Washington to begin serving his jail sentence for this… Trumbo had to write scripts under an assumed name, which he did for years… He wrote the screenplay for “Roman Holiday” which won the Oscar… a front person accepted the Oscar… Later in 1960, he wrote the scripts for “Exodus” and “Spartacus” under fake names, but when the films hit the screen, the producers decided to go ahead and give him his real name as credit, which effectively was the end of the blacklisting era in Hollywood. Trumbo was posthumously re-awarded his Oscar for “Roman Holiday”… In his Colorado hometown, they finally erected a statue to him, and it is of him sitting and typing in his bathtub, which was his favorite place to write…

[Thanks Mary Elaine LeBey]

[ronniaugust]

How to Write on Final Draft (without it feeling so daunting)

It's incredibly difficult to open up a Final Draft document without feeling like you're literally writing your final draft, so here's a few features you can use your advantage!

1. Turn on dark mode

Dark mode makes it look like less of a script and more of an outline. Edit and rewrite in light mode, you will feel the difference.

2. Use speed view

Speed view gets rid of pages and page numbers and therefore you are only looking at the words you type.

3. Use focus mode

Focus mode removes the scenes, page numbers, and outlines you have at the top on the program while writing. Another way to forget about focusing on progress.

4. Make a messy beat board

Throw all your ideas onto the beat board, it should help make the document feel a bit more lived-in and less pristine.

Bonus:

5. Set a template with your formatting and use that to start every script you write

While a script format is very ridged, there are things you can do to personalize it. When you find those things, make them in a Final Draft doc (without actual writing) and save as your own template so you don't have to change all the elements every time.

[escapedaudios]

I found a treasure in my dad's house. My first ever screenplay that I wrote for a short film. I thought it was lost forever. I need to scan the rest of this and preserve this historic artifact.

There is a lot of EscapedAudian energy in this script.

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[spiders-around]

fuck ittt im posting the new game thing.

I made a short interactive game where you haven't gone to work in a week since the closet corpse went missing, and your coworker is (understandably) worried about whatever that even means.

The game has two routes with entirely different stories, and two endings. It is quite short and I spent a good amount of hours making it (help). Play it at:

https://spiders.neocities.org/z-closetcorpse/0-start

[gerardlesudiste]

Lake Bell.

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[yourdailyqueer]

Grant O’Brien

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 15 May 1986

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, screenwriter, actor, comedian, Youtuber