Please ban me!

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So, lately my enjoyment of this forum has gone down while the time spend surfing the site has remained constant. The enjoyment/time ratio has reached an unacceptably low level. However, having an addictive personality makes quitting the site really difficult. Can a mod please temp ban me for a couple of months?
 
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I've been internet forming long enough that I've seen this request on more than one occasion :)

Always strikes me as silly though .. my guess is that you'll just end up playing video games or something else unproductive
 
Alright, since you seem to have difficulty actually doing something actually filmy and a casual looksee over your started threads history indicates that your interest is primarily writing and not so much filming and editing anything then how about we go with your strong suit, eh?

http://www.nytimes.com/most-popular-emailed?period=30
NYTimes most popular emailed stories in the last 30 days.
  • NYTimes has a fairly smart readership, thus it's not ultimately trivial rubbish.
  • If it was emailed then it's believed to be of interest to others and not just a self satisfying perverse interest. The subject can be assumed to be of a common interest.
  • It's over a longer period of time, thus no flash in the pan topical interest.

You have twenty of these socially interesting stories to adapt to a five to ten page short story using two or three characters in one or two sensible locations.
Try to me mindful of budget. Your capacity to think up of sh!t exceeds a producer's ability to pay for it. And we all can see that you're not a director or a producer.
You're a writer, so write.

The most marketable genres to write screenplays for are adventure (often the most expensive to produce), action (also expensive to produce, mostly nubes get hurt), horror (best bang for the producer's buck), and comedy (however, no one's as funny as they think they are.)
Write drama if you must, but they're about useless.
RomComs are second to drama in popularity and marketable disinterest.

If you can, and you should, drape your story over a Syd Field three act structure.

I know you have Celtx, and anyone can set up a google drive/docs account for free, so post us three to five five to ten page short screenplays as shared PDFs in the next week or two.
At least try to have one done by Monday morning.

Be productive.
Do something.

http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=47026

http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=49444

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...QtbHU1LUNPVWQzY0gzajRTTUE&usp=drive_web#gid=0
Please goto column W rows 86 to 95. Note the why these are weighted the way they are. Write accordingly.

Associated evaluation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NNGaVlrrpkjIfp-BRGjpTE03W1e5lZuRceJ3wQECYaI/edit

Good luck.
 
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Excellent assignment. I may actually have to do this myself, though with all the housework planned for tonight and over the weekend, it'll have to wait 'til next week at the earliest. :D
 
You're a sexy manly man, Will. ;)
(As I do pretty much the same housework sorta sh!t myself... :lol:)

I might throw in one (or two) myself by the end of the week.



Scoping out 'The Science of Older and Wiser' for a SciFi horror and 'When May I Shoot a Student' for an action thriller.
'Selling a Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes' also looks promising for a crime horror short.
 
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rayw said:
You're a sexy manly man, Will. ;)
(As I do pretty much the same housework sorta sh!t myself... :lol:).
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We're working on getting the house ready to list within the next two weeks. Very much looking forward to after the sale, and next purchase, and move... so much to do, so little time.
(And yet, here I am replying to a post started by a guy who wants to be banned because he's addicted to this site.. :lol:)
 
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