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Catch up on Spade: 1-5

I was thinking doing scheduled updates per episode, but that may be varied--it took me two weeks to write the first one, but I’m looking to finish the second in only one half to one week. 

And then there’s the issue of actually uploading the scripts. Do I make a blog outside of Tumblr for it? Or do I try to post them on here too? 

hello! thought i’d make a lil intro since i’m planning on turning this blog into something.

my name’s arys. i’m trans & queer, and i use he/him and they/them pronouns.

i love writing more than anything else in the entire world and it’s also my most successful coping mechanism lmao. projecting onto characters is why i’m here babey. i started writing shitty fanfic when i was like 12 and now here i am. (i still write shitty fanfic sometimes.)

so, i’ve decided to make this blog a writeblr too! dw there will still be shitposts & some politic stuffs & lots of gay shit, but there will also be writer shit now :)

Fast Facts:

i have one published book called “Writing on the Walls” and you can buy it on amazon (or read it on kindle)! it’s new adult/contemporary with major queer themes, found family, & recovery from trauma. (more here.)

my current WIPs are mainly screenplays & TV series because i’m super into film/visual storytelling lately, but i also enjoy writing short stories and have a novella in the works!

here’s a nifty little WIP page, and i’ll make proper intros to each :)

my fav genres are: contemporary, romance, urban fantasy, dystopian, superhero (is that a genre ??) & new adult but tbh put a queer character in something and i’m sold

i also write poetry sometimes !! and i love reading poetry so much aaa

i love music !! indie pop, soft rock, & punk-pop are some of my favs

i’m Hopeless Romantic

i love paranormal shit

more about me here

anyway, here i am! feel free to infodump about your WIP in my inbox lol & come be frens :) i made this post and i’ve been looking through the notes to find writeblrs to follow, but i’ll take a look at anyone who likes/rbs this too! i’m excite

A really easy way to practice screenwriting is to turn short stories into screenplays.

Find a short story, and I mean a short short story. When you’re practicing on the basics, just getting formatting down, adapting something small is going to be more doable than trying to do something that is 30 pages or more. The shorter piece you can find, the better. Look for vignettes, flash fiction, anything.

The whole point of this, especially for those used to writing fiction, is to get used to the components and limitations of screenplays. When you’re writing fiction, you have lots of ways to show internal conflict. Your character’s thoughts can be present within the narrative.

But screenplays are written completely out of visuals. How do you show that your character is depressed because their mom died? How do you show that a character just got dumped? Sure, you can just have some kind of narration going on overtop the visuals--some movies do this--but let’s be real: that’s telling the audience what to think. That’s lazy screenwriting.

There are lots of movies that can showcase showing instead of telling, but here’s an example from Wes Anderson’s movie, Rushmore:

This small scene tells us so much about Bill Murray’s character. And nobody says a word. There’s no narration (except for the words of a song playing in the background, but that isn’t telling us how Murray’s character feels). We know how he feels for a lot of reasons. Some of those reasons have to do with shot angles, others have to do with color, body language, nonverbal interactions, action.

But from this scene alone, we can tell that Murray’s character is depressed. We can tell his marriage is dying. His wife is cheating on him. He doesn’t really care anymore. He’s lonely. He’s childish. He doesn’t know what to do about his situation.

In some ways, “show, don’t tell” works similarly for both written fiction and screenplays/film. You really want strong images in both forms. But writing for film has the added bonus of lacking an internal character voice. So, you have to make up for that with action, with images, with external things that reflect the internal.

Hi, there! My name’s Justin and I’m new to writeblr (and Tumblr as a whole, really). I primary wrote screenplays before finishing the first draft of my novel last year. I enjoy fiction, categorizing my screenplays as dramedies and novels as YA fantasy. Both often incorporate themes relating to family dynamics, LGBTQ+ issues, supernatural phenomena, and some sort of overarching mystery.

On the list of never-ending WIPs, I’m currently prioritizing these (titles and loglines are also in-progress):

Cryptid: An aimless teen unknowingly follows in the footsteps of his late mother by joining a secret society dedicated to the rescue of cryptids. (~46k words)

Spade: A family must dig themselves out of debt by any means necessary, no matter how taboo, or illegal, it may be. (4 episodes written, follow along here)

Deferred: Follows the interconnecting lives of colleagues at a university admission office, set against the backdrop of deadly campus events (Logline needs work, 1 episode written)

Mutate: Alliances and rivalries ensue as rogue mutants plot the extermination of the human race (~14k words as of today)

When not writing, I’m either playing a video game (i.e. Pokémon, Zelda, any open world or life-sim) or catching up on the latest Bravo franchise. Looking forward to connecting and reading your work!

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