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I like to play golf so I'll just wrap my point up with this analogy. Let's say you wake up one morning and you decide you want to become a professional golfer. Good luck, buddy. Nevertheless, you are persistent and pursue your goal to become a professional golfer. What do you need? 1. talent...

FantasySciFi, I think we agree on a lot of points, and you'll see that I recommend that most new writers should start small and work through their local indie community. That's a solid approach. But if we're talking Hollywood, I think my point stands and we disagree over what exactly it takes...

With all due respect, I think it's having an outstanding script that gets one's foot in the door. Having connections can't hurt, but it would be even better if everyone wants a piece of you, not the other way around. The hard truth is that 99% of people who try to write screenplays will never...

As someone who has done some unorthodox things and literally thrown their life away to be a writer, I suggest doing #1 last, after you've learned to do everything else.

A couple of other examples in the very first scene of the film: 1. Bonasera's daughter was gang raped and badly beaten to the point of disfigurement. The perpetrators were found guilty in a court of law, but because of who they were (good old white boys) and his daughter's immigrant background...

OK I just skimmed this thread and that was quite the narrative rollercoaster.

The Godfather works because everyone else is more crooked than the Corleone family. The cops are crooks. The politicians are crooks. The other mob guys are traitors and rats, whereas the Corleone family are loyal and family oriented. More specific example: Sollozzo asks The Godfather to go into...

Why did this thread get bumped? I was going to read it until I saw the date and the OP got banned. This is actually correct but incorrect. Cracker's point is right because this is almost always what coaches do, but the adage itself is wrong because it's mathematically correct to go for 2 in...

In general you want to convey the most amount of information with the fewest words possible. Action / description blocks are underrated (there should be a nice balance between these and dialogue in a script), but you will probably always need to strive for more engaging descriptions, cut out...

Sometimes it's just dumb luck. There are literally hundreds of thousands of "young" (and old) writers who have attempted to write a script without really knowing what they are doing. Just because of the sheer numbers of attempts, the probability distribution dictates that a few of these people...

Dialogue is on-the-nose and painful (sorry). My suggestion ... create a scratch pad for dialogue exchanges with no words. Just subtext. Once you have the conversation constructed according to subtext, go back and write the dialogue to something more interesting. ETA: On-the-nose dialogue...

I wound up getting a good deal on the NVIDEA GeForce GT 520, installed by HP. Same price as I would have payed for buying and installing myself. About the best card I can get on a 300W PSU, I think anyway. Thanks again for the help!

I'm pretty bummed now, HP says the PC warranty will be voided if I install the graphics card myself, so I would lose the 1 year warranty for saving $20 or whatever vs. OEM :( Now my option is to return to HP, have them build me a new PC with the graphics card, then have them mail the new...

Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply, I know this is a low-tech thing and not too interesting. Right now I'm looking mostly at the GeForce 210, 520, and 8400GS. I also spotted some good deals on the 430 and 440's for close to the same price with rebate, but some manufacturer's list 400W...

Any more help? thanks again

Well I was trying to save money on what HP was offering me, and I don't want to get carried away beyond what the mobo and processor can handle. HP offered upgrade to i3-2125 w/ HD 3000 integrated graphics for +$20.00 512 MB AMD Radeon HD 7350 +$50.00 1GB AMD Radeon HD 7450 +$70.00 1GB DDR3...

This is one I was looking at, what do you guys think? NVIDEA / Gigabyte GeForce 210 ($39.99) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125392 Someone else was recommending to me: ATI / PowerColor Radeon 5450 ($29.99)...

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I just ordered my new PC, when I get it I will try to get my Sophocles Beta program running again, if not I will give CeltX a try. Knightly, I'm like you, I don't think I'd be comfortable storing my work on a cloud. For me it would both be a security issue and...

My old computer died and I just bought a new PC. Specs: HP Pavilion p7xt customizable Desktop PC Windows 7 Home Premium [64-bit] OS Intel Core i3-2120 processor [3.3GHz, 3MB cache] 6GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM 1TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive DVD r/w drive Wireless-N LAN card (1x1) etc. $469.99 It...

Sorry Josh, I missed your reply earlier. I installed Sophocles on my computer in Feb. 2008, right before they abandoned everything that Spring. At the same time, I copied the installer onto flash drive thinking that would allow me to still write when away from home, like on vacation or at...