Compliment post #3:
Diem
I love all your multi-paragraph posts. I love when you speak on a topic because you
only know how to go deep on a topic. You bare your every thought on it and generate new thoughts in those who read them almost by osmosis. You're the kind of guy I could go to a bar with and talk so much that we only order one drink and suddenly it's 2:30am and we're getting kicked out. The ability to communicate so much and yet still be stimulating with each new sentence is a wonderful trait to have, and I'm glad that someone so open-minded and kind is the one to have it.
This warmed my heart, thank you very much
As a writer, I've just sort of learned to think about everything critically and comprehensively over time, I suppose. I guess I do only know how to go deep on a topic. Don't know why. Maybe it's because I've spent so much of my time alone, so I've spent most of it in contemplation, only to then have too much to say when I do speak to others.
I don't do much drinking, though--I'm 22 and haven't had much in over a year. Also I'm somewhat allergic to some forms of alcohol, oddly enough, which complicates things further. And I've never been to a bar, mostly because I've never had reason to or anyone to go with. But I'm not opposed to the idea, provided I figure out my allergy
I'm actually a little self-conscious about my... wordiness. In writing, they always tell you to be concise, and sometimes with me that's an issue. I know what I write is long, but at the same time, I guess it's just my style? But "style" is a weak, insubstantial defense. Yet my professors have all seemed to give my work very good marks over the years, to the point that one of them uncharacteristically offered me a teacher assistant position with him for a couple semesters, so I suppose that's validating.
And thank you again for calling me open-minded and kind
Though I have reason to believe that if anyone in this thread knew me more personally, I wouldn't be as liked. Can't say for sure.
I'd do a compliment post right now, too, but between having somewhere to go soon, and me not spending as much time here as most people, and thus not getting too much of a chance to get to know everyone, I'd be worried of leaving people out or not having things to say for certain people. Oh well, we'll see when I get back.
Diem
has provided valuable insight into the world of script writing that I’m sure will come in handy
Thank you, too!
I can share some more coming in tonight if anyone's interested. I was up until past 2 A.M. last night reading this girl's
159 page pilot script, because I figured if anyone wrote something that long, it had to have a purpose. And, well... this sums up my feelings:
I'm about to pick up and head to class, where my professor will give his insight and feedback on it, and I can already predict most of what he's going to say. But what strikes me is that this script apparently went through three or four revisions--and came out
longer each time. I'll say this: the length was not necessary, though it wasn't evident to me until I finished reading. Because as someone who, as I said, has trouble with the length of their own work sometimes, I couldn't make judgments about what to cut until I understood the overall plot and premise.
Sometimes, in the process of writing something, it's easy to have a bunch of unnecessary things in it that bloat the work, but you don't always see it until you're finished, and then afterwards you revise and cut things down. Happened to me with my one video script back in December. But I don't know how she managed to keep adding more to an already super long script. My script is 84-85 pages, so still long, but I wouldn't think of adding any more than maybe a single, small scene at this point, because it already accomplishes everything rather efficiently, I believe. We'll see what the professor has to say in a week.
Though there were some other major flaws with her script, too. I tried to keep an open mind and objective view throughout, but, very weirdly, at almost exactly the halfway point the script's quality inexplicably dropped like a brick--dialogue, plot, action, everything. Before that point, there was actually a lot of craft and entertainment on a moment to moment basis, so I was somewhat invested. The only major issues I had in the first half was that it was paced more like a movie, some of the logic wasn't clear, and there was
a lot of buildup to
incredibly tame and cliche pranks. It's better written than most of the other scripts we've had in class, but... I have such mixed feelings about it.
Very curious to hear my professor's thoughts, and if anyone else is interested, I'll report some of his and mine later.
