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This week's Answer:
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Hot Script I
do, Kacey (and I'm glad you wrote to me). You said
you need to keep screen writing. Are you writing on
screens? I've never done that before. I
thought about it, but never had the nerve to actually do
it. My grandmother's backdoor screen was always
BANGING and thought about writing on it many a time.
I capitalized "banging" because that's what you
do, capitalize sounds when you're writing a
screenplay. I don't know if you would still
capitalize "banging" if you were writing on
a screen, though. I'd have to check with WGA to find
that one out. But that could get complicated, too,
because I think WGA has one of its offices in a rural
area; a little office out in the middle of nowhere
(wherever that is. I always wondered where nowhere
was and how you got to the middle of it.) and I do believe
(or I should say "reckon" -- or "reck'n)
that it has a screen door in the back, which could make
things complicated if somebody has actually written on the
WGA out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere office when you mention
screenwriting, being that the WGA constituents there may
misconstrue the intention and assume that someone was
referring to their back door.
But,
in case, Kacey (I like that way that sounds: case,
Kacey), you are referring to screenwriting as the act of
writing a screenplay, I know what it's like to feel
lethargic and not feel enthused about writing the next
scene, or even the next word. And then with this
heat wave we're having ("We're Having A Heat Wave...
A Tropical Heat Wave"), it's easy to feel like a sack
of wet potatoes or bananas (and everybody knows bananas
aren't known for their screenwriting prowess -- although
they have won more Best Screenplay Oscars than potatoes;
I'll grant you that). My suggestion is to stay as
cool as you can. Maybe even try writing in the
shower. (Of course, you'll need a waterproof pen and
paper set. Or a waterproof computer, which I think
is on the market now for $400,000, which means you'll need
to make a big sale on your next screenplay to at least
break even.) Or you could try writing very early in
the morning when it's cooler. Open those windows,
let in the lovely trills and calls of your neighborhood
birds, the pleasing sounds of the BEEP, BEEP, BEEP of the
backing up garbage trucks. Whatever it takes to be
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in order to embrace the day's
screenwriting. Or...
you could go to Antarctica and just phone it in.
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