Yesterday I mentioned some of the top search phrases for the month of October. But I’ve noticed, just through the search phrases WordPress reports to me, that people are looking for ways of writing screenplays using Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, the BBC is a big help here. They offer a free template download, Script Smart<\/a>, that takes the drudgery out of the proper formatting for a screenplay. It doesn’t mean that you’ll actually be able to write<\/i> a screenplay, as it’s a brutal and unforgiving form. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Why the sudden interest in writing screenplays? I wonder if the the Writers Guild strike<\/a> has something to do with it. As I’ve seen on bulletin boards — particularly those devoted to genre fans, the belief that the writers going on strike means there’s a chance for someone outside the Hollywood system to break into writing for television.<\/p>\n That won’t happen. The production companies aren’t going to be hiring scab writers. Don’t get me wrong — I think that if the studios wanted to break the writers union, they can now because it’s easier to decentralize writing now than it would have been twenty years ago — but it would likely cause the studios more problems down the road than it’s worth.<\/p>\n Enough about that. Writers deserve to be paid more, especially when DVDs and the ‘net have created revenue streams that weren’t even dreamt<\/i> of twenty years ago.<\/p>\n Back to Script Smart. I haven’t actually used these templates the BBC has made available, mainly as I have no real interest in writing a screenplay, but for someone out there who wants to automate the process, the BBC’s script templates might be worth looking at. Intriguingly, Script Smart Gold says it supports comic book scripting.<\/p>\n Maybe, for some reader out there, this will be helpful. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I mentioned some of the top search phrases for the month of October. But I’ve noticed, just through the search phrases WordPress reports to me, that people are looking for ways of writing screenplays using Microsoft Word. Fortunately, the BBC is a big help here. They offer a free template download, Script Smart, thatContinue reading “On Writing Screenplays”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4092,4102],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-comic-books","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}