/lit/ - Literature

Introduce the mood and the world first along with the main character(s) inbetween that. The best way to start a book is to start with the ordinary world. And then you get to the inciting incident which sets the entire story in motion, which should come in whenever you feel the pacing of your story desires. I'm a screenwriter so the ruls of story writing is a lot more structured. Books are easier due to the free flow element. You don't even need an arch to fulfill the story!(although without one, most people won;t really care for the book.)

>>800565
I'm actually trolling here. Apocolypse Now and The Outsiders are two of my favorite movies. I just don't see what the hype is. Unlike Scorcese, he pretty much dropped off the globe after the 70's due to the hastle on Studios for Apocolypse Now.

>>800552
If he's so good then why did he suck ass after the 70's were over?

>>800542
Fuck you Dale Gribble.

>>800513
The Conversation is forgettable. The Lives Of Others is nearly the same thing and it's ten times better and made by some random film student with a bunch of other small timers. As for Apocolypse Now and The godfather, those are gonna be talked about until the end of time. But what I'm trying to say is that Coppola's style is simplistic and pretty much anyone can do what he did. Eli Kazan could have done every movie that he did with twice the effort in half the time with a stick up his ass and without both his tongue and his hands and legs...

>>800489
All of those flicks are made from books. Anyone could have made equally as great films given the material that was supplied.

Francis Ford Coppola was a flake and only made 2 good movies in his career and a talented daughter. Stop sucking his dicks you fucks.

>>800465
You clearly ain't hip enough.

You guys are sophisticated. That's cool... I guess. I prolly won't fit in.. But here it is.
Poet: Fuck that shit
Writer: Micheal Crighton, Coen Brothers.
Painter: Kwest
Sculptor: I consider Achitecture to be similar to sculpting... so I'm going with whoever did this building.(It's the Bank of America plaza in New york City)
Filmmaker: Coen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ridley Scott
Composer: Andrea Bocelli(not sure if he;s even a composer, but he's into that stuff..)
Singer: Lights, or the lead singer from Dragonette
Photographer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loadstone/
Half a million freight flicks. I've seen about 10,000 of em.

He longed to climb to the observation bay and engage the enemy--but orders were orders.

Read this and the sequel. I loved it up until they blew up the island. Felt really strange. But it was a good movie translation, some of the stuff they took out of the book they used in the sequels.

Jurassic Park 1&2
This book about some jewish kid who suffered through the holocaust....
That book with the colorful fish.

Shirt story.

I did it once for a short script. I wrote the first draft and I sent it to the guy and he wrote a second draft that turned the story into utter shit. This was clearly not the best way to tackle the mission. If I found the right person then I'd do it like they did in Sunset blvd. Someone behind the keyboard/typewriter while the other throws ideas and thinks things through. It really helps when it comes to dialogue.

Small town feel, small town folk crowd several tables, all of them leading to a dance floor then a stage where a country band plays a Paul Brandt song. The lead singer finishes up, the crowd claps cheerfully.

>>489606
It always works though. People will always enjoy the underdog. and if he's the biggest underdog in history then you got 3.profit.

Also one of the best ways of balancing it out is to make your antagonists god like then have your main characters be as weak as a kitten.

>>489520
If they are gods at the beginning and gods at the end then what is the arch? They must either become gods, or lose all their powers and become vulnerable.

Make character bios for each character. Try and take an actor who you think would best portray the character and apply some of their mannerisms into that character. It's a great tool for screenwriting. not sure about novels.

>>488935
I'm gonna do the write a script thing in a month in April. Should be interesting. I was told about the contest then realized that there's no prizes or anything.. Fucking quacks.

>>486064
Are you talking about a one mane narrative? As in the entire story is seen form his perspective? It's hard to imagine a one character story going anywhere interesting.

A man inherites prime land from his father and tries to carry on the legacy made by the previous generations of the family, but a greedy rancher wants the land and his wife disagrees with the lifestye.

I'm a screenplay Writer if that counts...

>>481817
It's a writing book. Not the best to be honest...