Fiction(less) Friday
It's Friday, and on Write Anything that means it is [Fiction] Friday, our weekly flash fiction prompt.
Today I realised it is almost three months since I took part in [Fiction] Friday. Given that I'm one of the writers on the site, that's not good form - and I'm meant to be in charge of the writing prompts in September! But then I've not written much in the way of fiction at all in the last three months, neither for the site nor my own projects. I do need to get back on that horse, and soon. I had grand plans for an aggressive writing schedule that would see me finish two manuscripts by the end of the year, and looking at my calendar, I've spotted that the time alloted to the first one for writing, rewriting and editing, has expired.
B@%&£*$^!
As ever, I do have an excuse. More than one actually. The depression is a fairly major factor. When some days are a struggle to get out of bed, then writing is the furthest thing from my mind.
But I do have another really quite excellent excuse, more of which in my next post...
I'm also branching out into two new(ish) areas. When I was in high school I used to be reasonably good at drawing and painting, and recently I've picked up some paints, pastels and pencils, and want to give that a go again - as much for the therapeutic aspects as for the creativity aspects.
And, there are two script writing competitions I'm going to enter - one is for Co-Producer, which describes itself as "a unique collaborative movie-making project. An online panel of CoProducers will have their say on all aspects of the movie, from pitch to post-production, in exchange for receiving a share of 55% of the movie's net profits."
The idea was to create something unique, and to focus on quality movie ideas. Sadly, being the general public, they tossed out all the original ideas in the first stage, and have plumped for a no thought required action movie. Doubtless there will be calls for Jason Statham to star.
However, members are now able to submit their pitches to write the script, so I think I'd like to try to drag it back from the precipice of humdrum mediocrity it is hellbent on becoming. That may sound big-headed of me, but honestly, you should have read some of the comments - I understand that big budget action flicks turn profit, but everyone seemed to forget that the way this project is set up, it will simply not have the budget to make this kind of action flick. And the whole ethos of the project was to have something unique, something rarely seen in the cinema. That alone should have disqualified every "tits, guns & explosions" idea that got pitched.
The other script competition is for BBC Scotland, who are looking for pilot episode pitches for a TV series that would reflect contemporary Scotland - open to writers originally from, or currently living in, Scotland.
At the very least, it gives me some practice in formats I'm not used to.
Today I realised it is almost three months since I took part in [Fiction] Friday. Given that I'm one of the writers on the site, that's not good form - and I'm meant to be in charge of the writing prompts in September! But then I've not written much in the way of fiction at all in the last three months, neither for the site nor my own projects. I do need to get back on that horse, and soon. I had grand plans for an aggressive writing schedule that would see me finish two manuscripts by the end of the year, and looking at my calendar, I've spotted that the time alloted to the first one for writing, rewriting and editing, has expired.
B@%&£*$^!
As ever, I do have an excuse. More than one actually. The depression is a fairly major factor. When some days are a struggle to get out of bed, then writing is the furthest thing from my mind.
But I do have another really quite excellent excuse, more of which in my next post...
I'm also branching out into two new(ish) areas. When I was in high school I used to be reasonably good at drawing and painting, and recently I've picked up some paints, pastels and pencils, and want to give that a go again - as much for the therapeutic aspects as for the creativity aspects.
And, there are two script writing competitions I'm going to enter - one is for Co-Producer, which describes itself as "a unique collaborative movie-making project. An online panel of CoProducers will have their say on all aspects of the movie, from pitch to post-production, in exchange for receiving a share of 55% of the movie's net profits."
The idea was to create something unique, and to focus on quality movie ideas. Sadly, being the general public, they tossed out all the original ideas in the first stage, and have plumped for a no thought required action movie. Doubtless there will be calls for Jason Statham to star.
However, members are now able to submit their pitches to write the script, so I think I'd like to try to drag it back from the precipice of humdrum mediocrity it is hellbent on becoming. That may sound big-headed of me, but honestly, you should have read some of the comments - I understand that big budget action flicks turn profit, but everyone seemed to forget that the way this project is set up, it will simply not have the budget to make this kind of action flick. And the whole ethos of the project was to have something unique, something rarely seen in the cinema. That alone should have disqualified every "tits, guns & explosions" idea that got pitched.
The other script competition is for BBC Scotland, who are looking for pilot episode pitches for a TV series that would reflect contemporary Scotland - open to writers originally from, or currently living in, Scotland.
At the very least, it gives me some practice in formats I'm not used to.
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