I can't write for shit.

[CanuckAmok]

Seriously.... I'm trying to bang-out a treatment for a screenplay, and seven pages in, it completely blows.

So I'm listening to Black Flag.

[ZombieNixon]

1. When do you have to have it done by?

:shrug:

[CanuckAmok]

2. Before I die.

This isn't a work thing, it's for a side-project I want to pitch for myself.

[ZombieNixon]

6. Oh, it's exactly like my writing, then.

At least you're not on a deadline. Sleep on it...ideas come at the weirdest moments. I carry a little notepad with me at all times so I can jot stuff down. :shrug:

[GirlinContempt]

3. I'd try to help inspire you

but you never get my messages :D

[CanuckAmok]

7. I always get your messages, don't i?

Whachoo talkin' 'bout?

[GirlinContempt]

13. Nine times outta ten

it tells me that it couldn't deliver the message to you :\

Time to get trillan, my friend :D

[CanuckAmok]

14. Meh, you know I hate all that IM stuff.

Give me two tin cans and a string, and I'm a happy man.

[GirlinContempt]

15. Gimmie your stringcolour and I'll give you a jingle

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Good luck from a fellow writer!

:hi:

[enigmatic]

5. Rise Above

:thumbsup:

[CanuckAmok]

8. That's playing in the opening scene...

Rise Above.

As sung by a 40 year old advertising rep stuck in an immobile morning rush-hour jam.

[enigmatic]

9. Now that sounds good!

let me know how it turns out..

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Wrong. Allow yourself a really, really shitty first draft.

Words of genius from Anne Lamott. Believe it, embrace it, and live by it.

The first priority is simply to get the goddamn thing written, no matter how stupidly shitty it is, then go fix it, which is a hell of a lot easier than trying to write it perfect the first time.

Allow yourself a really, really shitty first draft.

I've been writing that way for years, and believe me, it works wonders.

[sweetheart]

11. work on your metre

When a poet uses metre subtly, you can't tell,
its really a joy to hear the rhyme ripple and seethe,
coincidence of odd soundings that words spell,
a way for us to conceive, a way for hamlet to grieve.

Then when you're working your next line,
your subconscious rhyming mind will achieve,
a minor rhythmic impulse behind time,
that the stage gets us all to believe.

when you want to emphasize,
speaking words alive,
mixed up metres thrive.

As if one would ever think to ask.

Metre changeups in shakespeare's divine grasp.

[YouthInAsia]

12. love black flag. What albu are you listening to?

[CanuckAmok]

16. DAMAGED

notice the all-caps.

[YouthInAsia]

17. I've always been partial to "My War"

But all their albums are great.

[Random_Australian]

18. Then work out a better way of writing, it sounds like the method

you're trying to adhere too isn't your style. Have you tried writing incidents from the middle, planning an overview, writing all sorts of stuff that won't be in it to get a feel for your characters? There are many ways of writing and it sounds like you've not found yours yet.

[SofaKingLiberal]

19. Don't write it..

let the characters write it.