{"id":80,"date":"2007-09-15T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/cool-stuff\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T21:42:09","slug":"cool-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/cool-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. Here I am again, in another jam of my own boiling. I got all excited, had a blizzard of creative activity&#8230; and I&#8217;m set fast in a berry-flavoured condiment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got three elements compelling me through my current script:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>its genre, one that I&#8217;ve always admired and enjoyed;<\/li>\n<li>a core theme that&#8217;s reflected &#8211; I dare say embodied, even &#8211; by the protagonist;<\/li>\n<li>and a hook that will drive the protagonist onward in their journey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, I might think these elements alone are as cool as heck &#8211; I&#8217;m flashing on scenes to illuminate and entertain, set-pieces are tugging at my sleeve to be written now or be lost forever, <em>I can see the trailer already<\/em> &#8211; but <strong>there&#8217;s no story here<\/strong>. This rather glaring omission is quite clear in the thirty-odd pages of set-ups and teasers and clues that I&#8217;ve excitedly but rashly typed up.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it may have been fun to get this far but I <em>do<\/em> want this script to not only be readable, I want it to be a gripping\/thrilling\/enjoyable read, right? And if I can achieve those things, it gets the script that much closer to being made, right?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve started outlining the script from scratch. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve wasted my time and energy on those thirty pages. Some pieces from those thirty pages will fit right into the outline. And there&#8217;s dialogue and stuff about the characters that wouldn&#8217;t have occurred to me if I&#8217;d just started with the dry work of outlining.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun while it lasted but all good things come an end, and that&#8217;s okay. It sucks that the story won&#8217;t &#8216;write itself&#8217;. But it&#8217;s all part of the process for this particular script.<\/p>\n<p>Onward ho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. Here I am again, in another jam of my own boiling. I got all excited, had a blizzard of creative activity&#8230; and I&#8217;m set fast in a berry-flavoured condiment. I&#8217;ve got three elements compelling me through my current script: its genre, one that I&#8217;ve always admired and enjoyed; a core theme that&#8217;s reflected &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/cool-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cool Stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[435,436,353],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","tag-outline","tag-process","tag-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}