Fictional Skies

Have you ever had an idea for a story or character journey and could not only picture its existence as a film but could also see it expanded as a television series? Maybe an idea began as a comedy series for television but would work well as a radio series with less budget and more chance of being commissioned? Alternatively, it may have began as a short film but has the potential to work as a feature with expanded development and more characters? But ultimately were put off by the amount of work and wrote it in one format - while dreaming of the other. Or could not decide and left them both. It can sometimes be troubling and a killjoy to visualise an exciting story concept in another form to then reach a deadlock. However, the important thing is to keep moving forward regardless. Passion Vs. Logic  From experience the more insight and knowledge I've gained into what would work and fit into a particular form the more my instincts are attuned to what will work bes...

I read this morning, an excellent piece of project management advice from Go Into The Story that will change my writing life forever. This promptly made its way to ScriptSense . It arrived in the last minute of the eleventh hour to prevent me going any further with my proposed Rotating Triangle Approach to Screenwriting and Project Management. After four weeks on the preliminary work on the Primary Project (Codename: Spacebound). I was set to rotate and start the prelim-work on Secondary Project today. As well as share the initial idea on the approach. If you wish, you can read the unpublished post on the abandoned approach here . What it shows is that I was on the right lines searching for a solution to managing and progressing with three projects at once. Although, last night did spot weaknesses in the approach which were going to led to modifications and to include the overlapping of projects. But I needn't do any more on it now. The First Hour  I have no d...

The New Year for me has kicked off in style and has been long awaited. As always: it's great to be alive and writing! The new groove is partly due to reaching challenging genres and approaching the year's worth of projects in a different way. As well as reaching a foreseen change of direction and new level of writing; with growing confidence and a relaxed and focused outlook. The aim is to write great scripts - that all starts with concept and genre. ...but what happened to the old ones?  The last two years writing has essentially been spent on writing the same project: not exactly the truth, but most have existed in the contemporary drama arena of varying degrees. It's not ideal material for a body of spec work - but then again, I knew that going into some of them. However, they all have a home and a place in time where they belong, which is a great thing. As for WWII Drama Screenplay, that's an entirely different matter and is a project that has more than ...

*Shmm*  That was the improvised sound of a new connection forming in the brain. Opening up new possibilities in your writing and the way you view the world.  All via this lovely and inspiring piece of work.  Imagination is key.  Unlock it.  Live it. 

No purchase necessary, no hidden scam. Just free common sense advice from an expert that isn't myself. Everyone has different levels of creativity and I assume it's safe to say that at some point in our creative endeavours our conscious mind has gotten the better of us. There are many factors involved that can stifle and cut a creative moment short but just like anything the way to overcome it is by understanding it. In this case, to understand what is going on under the surface and what the act of creativity involves and needs in order to thrive. I'm not going to go into that myself but as the topic has been covered will direct you to an excellent article on creativity and the various bad habits that people get into that dampen their chances of success. Take me there now! As the Doomsday Clock moves 1 minute closer to midnight, by clicking on the link above and reading you've just advanced your Success Clock 1 minute closer to its midnight. That can be increa...