Saturday, October 25, 2008

So I have a story... sorta

I know the story I want to write, I just don't have a lot of details about the story. It will require research in fields I'm not sure how to get information about yet, but it's good. If you've been following this blog, then you know I've been working on a couple of ideas at once. The problem with them, at least the one I've written about the most (which I never really gave you any information on) was that is wasn't really a "full" idea. Most of the scenes I plotted out were only there because I needed more index cards for my beatsheet. Now that Jeff Kitchen has opened my eyes to more organic screenwriing, I can "feel" this story much more. With each script, I've been coming closer and closer to achieving "Unity of Action", making the script truly about one goal. I've also learned how to really milk a theme without mentioning it in more than one scene. I feel really good about this script. Even it I haven't written it yet.
I want this to be my Nicholls entry. In the meantime, between drafts perhaps, I want to also work on a commercial project. I'm just not sure how to market anything yet. How do you sell anything without contacts? I actually have a better idea of how to sell my Nicholls project than the commercial one I have in mind.
I was thinking about using Script P.I.M.P., but it's expensive and I haven't heard that many success stories about it. Inktip, I've heard a lot of selling and optioning (without pay), but I'm still a little iffy about it; some of the "producers" might not actually be producers but other writers or God knows who else. And the producers there are appearently looking for low budget movies and haven't produced much.
I really think my Nicholls project (I don't even have a name for it yet) could be a big thing, and my other project requires a really big budjet, so I think that's out.
So to sum up this seires of ramblings: I have a really good idea for a script to submit to Nicholls, an another one to sell to whoever wants to make blockbusters.

Brooding of you,
Mr. Jordan

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