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Burgeoning filmmaker here, well, I really only do it for fun. So far I've only written bare outlines and let my "actors" improv stuff and then edit the best stuff together.

However I REALLY want to write a full script. I've never really written anything though. So the other day I sat down and stared at the blank page ready to write. But nothing came to me.

What tips would you give an aspiring writer, specifically who wants to write screenplays? I'm guessing I don't really need to worry about 'prose' so much, right?

>> No.4374186

Do you think Shakespeare didn't worry about 'prose'?

>> No.4374209

OP pic mayemee is the most obnoxious highschool 9leddit tier 'humor'.

Please stop polluting this board with that.

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4374218

>>4374209
That's enough of the 'hurr leddit' memes, anon.

>>4374184
>burgeoning

>> No.4374222

>>4374184
flesh out your characters history's first, it might help give you insight into what they would say, and the sorts of scenarios you could find them in.
You can build the story from there. Doesn't matter if the first one's shit, you just need to get into the rhythm of the creative process.

>> No.4374237

>>4374184
Why write your own?
Make a film adaptation of an existing play. You'll get practice from it and you'll still have to write in order to flesh it out, with the added benefit of a decent storyline.

>> No.4374268

>>4374218

>That's enough of the 'hurr leddit' memes, anon.

When faggots like OP stop posting bullshit mediocre vanillacunt memes like this then anon will stop calling them out on it, you fucking apologist moron.

>> No.4374270

I"m going to beat the crap out of anyone wh oposts any kind of memes on /lit/

>> No.4374281

>>4374268
>muh sooper sekret klub
>muh best memes on the whole internet
>muh edginess

>> No.4374284

>>4374281
I know ever more secret internet clubs that have even better memes than here.

>> No.4374293

>>4374284
>you will never be cool enough for the best sites with the best memes

sadfrog.jpg

>> No.4374321

>>4374281

>being this much of an apologist

lol

>> No.4374361

That guy who reads scripts for a film production company here again. My best advice is to find a style guide, like how to do correct scene headings etc. and correct length for the kind of thing you're writing and then write how you would for a book. Yes, a screenplay is basically instructions for the director/cast/producers but it has to be evocatively written for them to imagine the scenes (and more importantly, get it made).