Currently Writing

I'm happy to report that I've been writing consistently over last couple of months on Trigger Digits. I originally wanted to finish this script last month, but I underestimated how much I can accomplish even for a straight-forward thriller script after my regular job. But I can see the end of the tunnel and I hope to turn it around for screenwriting contests after polishing it up.

Per usual, I started to daydream about next scripts that I plan to write and wanted to post it here for my records and references.

• Title: Wings of Desire (working title)
• Genre: Sci-Fi Drama
• Details: I decided to combine three short scripts that I've written in various stages and combine them as one feature length film. That provides more solid ground for me to make one short film, and sell it as the promotional reel to make the rest of this feature film in the future.

• Title: N/A
• Genre: Supernatural Thriller / Drama
• Details: I cannot reveal of the title of this script because this will be an adaptation of a comic book that I don't have rights to. I'm simply going to write the script adaptation of this comic book as an exercise, working with the solid narrative arc & characters in place. And I really want to make this comic book into a film if I become a viable film director.

• Title: Dark Tide Rising (working title)
• Genre: Thriller / Action
• Details: Need to research little more about deep sea & US nuclear submarines, develop character rapports and come up with big showdown for its 3rd act.

• Title: Belfast Saga
• Genre: Fantasy Action Adventure
• Details: I got the main characters, plots, and overall narrative arc, but writing in the right medieval fantasy tone is HARD! So I resulted in writing in plain modern English for the 1st draft and will polish the dialogues later, like I always do - Ha!

• Title: The Phoenix Company
• Genre: Sci-Fi Action / Drama
• Details: A 13 episode TV series about a private military company in future. This is my first endeavor in developing & writing TV scripts, an exercise to develop longer story & characters arcs as well as get familiar with TV medium. Partly inspired by awesome Battlestar Galatica series, I must admit.

There are more half-written scripts in my computer but these are the most solid ones that I'll keep myself busy in front of monitor glow for some time. I hope to update on my progress sooner than later in order to keep my own promise: keep on writing.

Script Cops

Hilarious web series regarding, what else?, writers and their precious scripts. I especially loved this episode, "Cliche Misdemeanor."

I'm so going to "write good."Haha.

Script Learning from ScriptShadow

What We Can Learn From Five Box Office Surprises

"You know your idea’s good when people immediately get excited about it."

Yeah, I wrote few short scripts like that. That's one of main reasons I still dabble in screenwriting, to get people invested in my story, and my world.

Interview with Ben Ripley - writer of Source Code.

"the great thing about being a writer in Hollywood, the source of our power, is the ability to generate new material."

"Its very simplicity became its high concept. None of that was planned from the beginning – none of it was outlined. It all had to come during the process of discovery in the writing."

I still haven't followed my New Year resolution of reading a script per weekend. I hope to read his script after I'm finished with an unproduced Indy IV script.

7 Parts Video Review of Star Wars: Episode I

The epic video review that tears through the Episode I like no other. I thought it's one of most valuable tools of storytelling, period, on the web today, hence this blog post.

"The Phantom Menace makes you wonder: with the total control on the every aspect of film... this was the result?"

7 Writer's Rules for Survival in Animation

by Rob Edwards. "Each Story Artist is “cast” to do various sequences according to their abilities with action, comedy or dramatic moments. If you’ve followed Rule #2, you’ll quickly figure out how to write to the strength of the particular artists." "The more outrageous and remarkable the world of your film is, the more it needs to be anchored with an emotional reality. Find the truth in the incredible, give your characters a beating heart, tell your stories as entertainingly as possible and have a ball doing it."

Do you have a onesheet for your screenplay?

"Think of it as the movie poster for your screenplay."

Since I love great movie posters, I won't mind subscribing to this (marketing) idea.

Shauna Cross on the Business of Screenwriting

She encapsulates this endeavor nicely within 6 minutes interview.