Because I promised Erika to talk a little about screenwriting, here’s what I learned during my “conquest of Hollywood” between 2006 and 2008. First, the easy part. When you write a screenplay, you don’t have to wonder what person or what tense to choose: it’s always present tense and third person. Try to avoid passive [...]
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screenwriting 101
Posted by Barb on September 10, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/screenwriting-101/
Graphic novels & screenplays
Because I don’t expect everybody to read my comments on this or other blogs, I thought I’d do a specific post on the different sorts of writing I’ve tackled through the years. First the difference between novel, illustrated novel and graphic novel, as I have figured it out on my own. A novel is, of [...]
Posted by Barb on June 3, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/graphic-novels-screenplays/
CS open – spring edition
To keep my screenwriting muscles in use, I’ll keep doing the CS Open, or Cyberspace Open as it’s now called. That’s because I enjoy the thrill and I like Jim Cirile, mostly! This latest edition I didn’t do very well, though, probably because I was supposed to be in London and the Icelandic volcano destroyed [...]
Posted by Barb on May 27, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/cs-open-spring-edition/
The CSopen is Back!
And it’s not even Expo time! They’re doing a spring version with videotaping of the final three scenes. Even if I don’t get to the third and final step, I’ll have to remember to go there and vote! You find everything about it here or here. I already booked my place in the contest, even [...]
Posted by Barb on March 16, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/the-csopen-is-back/
screenwriting
I wasn’t sure what to write today, but then I found this post on my tag surfer about selling screenplays from outside LA. Great post, he’s probably totally right. So, should I go back to my screenwriting career? Not so sure. True that I still have to through my screenplays again and decide if they’re [...]
Posted by Barb on February 4, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/screenwriting-2/
Screenwriting
A screenwriter friend of mine recently asked if I’m still writing screenplays. Not for the rest of the year (I did edit Choices this month, but that’s the last work I’m doing on a screenplay). I did send Choices to Coverage Ink for coverage, and got another PASS (but also a “writer – consider with [...]
Posted by Barb on January 28, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/screenwriting/
on screenwriting
Everybody says to learn how to write, you must read. In your genre, if possible, if not anything. Thus, if you want to be a poet, read poetry, a novelist novels (genre novels if you’re a genre writer, of course), and if you want to be a screnwriter, read screenplays. I’ve read some (not hundreds, [...]
Posted by Barb on December 8, 2009
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/on-screenwriting/
Screenwriting Expo and the likes
I’ve invested quite some money on screenwriting events. Expo 5, 6 and 7, Final Draft, Sherwood Oaks classes. I’d compare them all to the writing courses (except for the CS Open) – lots of talks, some interesting networking, nice people most of the time, but in the end a waste of time. Glad I count [...]
Posted by Barb on November 27, 2009
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/screenwriting-expo-and-the-likes/
screenwriters
I just loved this post by Sean Minogue. I don’t know who he is, haven’t checked his IMDB credits, but he writes just like the guys at Creative Screenwriting or Script Magazine. And he’s right about screenwriters. That’s what I figured out myself in the past 3 years, and one of the reasons to put [...]
Posted by Barb on November 24, 2009
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/screenwriters/
2009 Cyberspace Open
Creative Screenwriting Cyberspace Open, managed for Creative Screenwriting Magazine by CoverageInk.com. Cyberspace Open Round 1 Premise “Your PROTAGONIST is in a jam. He (or she) had been relying on deception in order to further his objective, but his ENEMY has figured out the ruse. Write the scene in which your protagonist’s LOVE INTEREST confronts him [...]
Posted by Barb on November 22, 2009
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/2009-cyberspace-open/
My name is Barb, and I'm a writer, sometimes an artist, mostly a world-creator and storyteller of fantasy worlds. I have more than one pen-name and write in more than one genre.
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