melie

i know they are not everyone's cup of tea and they can be very messy if the platform they're posted on doesn't have options for some proper formatting or doesn't allow them to at least post screenshots of the script, and yes i also know that technically scripts are meant to be used by actors and directors and producers and yadda yadda yadda but imo they can be SOOOOOOO DAMN FUN if done right???? am i hallucinating or

LIKE, my post-grad most recent assignment has us writing a script (min 1 page, max 5 pages) about anything we want as long as it's properly formatted and creative and etc, and we literally had a Narrations & Scripts class for that for the whole trimester. that made me start studying a LOOOOT about screenplays and the wonders and joys and whimsies of writing scripts and also researching a lot and trying out a zillion different platforms and i must say i'm currently very obsessed with the world of scripts and screenplays, might be a new special interest incoming 😭

anyway, i got so obsessed my brain is buzzing 24/7 telling me to write a bunch of different scripts for the 93839283 fanfics and original stories i have in my head and send them to my friends because i'm too much of a coward to post anything, so i started thinking that it could be a good idea to write all the things i've been wanting to write in yeaaars (but couldn't because of ugh writers block) in a screenplay format to see if it can get me to snap out of this damn block and finally get some writing done once and for all even if i end up not showing anyone

it even crossed my mind to maybe post one of them somewhere someday or at least just send to my closest friends, but i made the mistake of googling about fanfics written in the screenplay format to see some examples and i came across some reddit and quora posts of people asking others for their opinions on them and oh my god they were 97% filled with a looooot of negative opinions about it and some of them were pretty aggressive, shitting on screenplay formatted stuff 😭

i got immediately discouraged, ngl. there were a bunch of people in there yapping about how they HATE IT and about it's an instant click back for them and how it sucks to read and they can't get into it and about how scripts are meant only for actors and directors and producers and etc for them to use it to perform or make a show/movie/play/etc about it and not for people to read them and also how nobody wants to read a script and about how it's "lazy writing" (which makes absolutely no sense to me because scripts take a TON OF EFFORT to be written) and about how it's NOTHING compared to prose and reading the script is not the same thing as watching someone perform (maybe some of them have aphantasia? idk, but like how can they picture a prose in their head perfectly but not a script where you literally have all the setting of a scene in it? idk anyway) and, I KID YOU NOT, some of them were literally SHITTING ON MOTHERFUCKING SHAKESPEARE for how his works are published in a script format and not prose and they can't get into it because of that

so yeah as i said i got pretty discouraged because it seemed so fun in my head at first when i thought about writing that way, it seemed like a really refreshing and creative different way to write and read things (i even read some fanfics written in that format and god did i love them, it was a very fun and refreshing experience, i could picture every scene in my head so perfectly like i was watching a movie), but then i found out apparently almost everyone completely hates it to their souls so i got really mehh and insecure to even send it only to my closest friends that usually read my stuff and react very well to it if i end up writing something :P