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@emberynus-the-dragonslayer Haha, well, I’m making it my career, which helps. XD Both my last book and my current one were part of my work in the Author Conservatory (the cleaning business is, too).
I could not possibly write without an outline. XD I can’t even manage to write a synopsis without outlining it first…
Kiet: *sticks his head around the corner* Hi! It’s been a while. ^_^
Tai: *careens around the corner* Eyyyy Ember! Howzit goin?
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
@emberynus-the-dragonslayer Ooh that’s great!
Yep! Do you remember Kiet, Grace, Tai, etc? I finished theirs in 2021 at almost 100k words, and another fantasy novel at about the same word count last summer. Sashal, Daya, Milo, and Averic are some of the major character in the book I’m almost finished outlining!
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
Heyyyy @emberynus-the-dragonslayer! *hugs back and takes more than her fair share of the chocolate* I’ve been all over the place. I’m on my second year of the Author Conservatory, working on my third novel, running a cleaning service… busy and living life! How about you?
Would you rather have to always wear your least favorite color or only be able to listen to your least favorite genre of music?
Sashal: *presses knuckles to her lips* Ohhh that’s a hard one… colors add so much to my dances, but music does, too…
Me: Sashal, honey, I’m pretty sure you’ve only ever heard your country’s traditional music… that only counts as one genre…
Sashal: Ohh… *giggles*
Daya: Color. I don’t really care much about colors, but I’d rather not have to deal with bad music.
Me: So blinding orange it is?
Daya:
Daya: I pick bad music.
Milo: Color. Music means a lot to me.
Averic: It doesn’t particularly matter to me. I’m really more of a scientist than an artist. Though… I do love the music at the Great Shrine. I wouldn’t want to lose that, so color.
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
Oh wow, it has been a long time since I’ve been on here. Hey again guys!
Would your character rather kill to stay alive or die to keep their friend alive?
Lol even my less-than-savory characters veer less selfish than that, but they all have different nuances, sooo…
Sashal: Oh, die to keep someone alive! I… I don’t think I could kill someone… *goes a bit pale*
Daya: I don’t have any friends, so it’s a useless question.
Milo: *gives him a long look*
Daya: You’re my brother, that doesn’t count. What kind of a question is this, anyway? What situation would require me to die to keep a friend alive, that wouldn’t also be solved by killing whoever’s putting us in this situation?
Me: It’s theoretical.
Daya: I kill the killer. Final answer.
Me: You’ll have to excuse him, he’s a bit of a blockhead.
Milo: *holding Daya back* I would avoid killing if at all possible. I’m not afraid to die if it’s for a good cause.
Averic: *nods slowly from his desk in the corner* I would have to concur.
Me: Care to voluntarily join an instance of human interaction, Averic?
Averic: ….
Averic: *sighs and puts down his papers, out of courtesy if nothing else*
New question (I’m really evil…): Would your character rather kill their friend in a merciful manner or let their enemy kill them in a cruel one?
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
*looks at the calender* Whoaaaa I haven’t been on here in forever…
I’m back because @Chalice, you inspired me! I went through your blog and was amazed as always by the UNBELIEVABLE stuff you do, and I wanted to try my hand at it myself! So here’s my first (I think?) attempt at all-by-meself photorealism. Thanks for being such an inspiration! ^_^
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
I had been kind of wavering on my end; I’m about to start classes for my conservatory, and I’m also working and balancing other life stuff. I’m not sure I’ll have much time to commit, and I’ll probably only keep having less. So… I think what I might do is find a way to pull my characters out organically. I don’t want to just drop them immediately, especially since they’re tightly intertwined with @dakota right now, and I hate to leave this group completely. So I may plot with you guys, see how to wrap up the storyline with my characters fairly “quickly”, and figure out how to get them out of the world somehow. XD Should get interesting. But that’s where I’m at.
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
@ericawordsmith whoops, forgot to tag you XD I had a few snippets of advice for writing scripts up there lol
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
*shows up with Starbucks two weeks late* Heh, what’s up
Ok so I am NOT an expert at this by any means, but I recently wrote a screenplay for my music teacher, so I have the experience of one (1) script? I’ll do my best here XD
The biggest thing I learned was that in anything visual like screenplays or theater, since you have only dialogue to work with in the way of words, you really have to make actions speak louder than words more than ever. And you have to make what words you do have count. Let me see if I can find a few ways I made this happen in my newbie script. . .
Ok so my screenplay was about a girl in a Christian school trying to figure out what to do in the conflict surrounding a new Muslim student in her school. Here are a few things I did to attempt to show instead of tell in the story:
- I make use of the setting to convey information, in my case to make it obvious that it’s a Christian school–indicated in brackets that the walls are decorated with crosses, Bible verses, etc. It’s mentioned a few lines down as a natural part of conversation, but it makes it clear from the get-go.
- I made sure to add any body language directions for the actors in brackets to make it clear what the character is feeling that the dialogue alone might not indicate.
- I hinted at one or two things that the fullness of was revealed later. E.g., the main character, Brianna, had a big issue with the school the year before because some girls accused her falsely of selling or owning drugs (which one it is is never stated). This isn’t brought up until this line closer to the end (spoken by a girl who is harassing Amara, the Muslim student): “If you can’t even handle pork, you really don’t want to mess with her. She has. . . special chemicals in her backpack.” This is elaborated on more a little further down as Brianna is arguing with her friend over the situation, and the friend says “You can’t compare this to the whole drug thing last year. That was a complete setup, and they were trying to get you in trouble with the school.”Another instance of this was a suggestion of my teacher’s, involving this exchange between Brianna and her friend Sophia:
SOPHIA: They’re not messing with her that much, and besides–she doesn’t believe in Jesus, Brianna.
BRIANNA: [pauses] Neither does your brother.
SOPHIA: [stiffens] That’s different.
BRIANNA: It’s really not. [takes a deep breath with an air of decision] I can’t leave her with those two on her own. Just go to the theater without me.It conveys a pivotal issue in just a few words, and less is more in scripts (or at least screenplays. I’m just giving what I learned from writing a single screenplay lol XD).
Finally, in characterizing Amara, I used solely visuals to indicate part of her loneliness at school. Throughout the screenplay, she’s seen with a sketchbook, and when it’s first shown, she’s sketching herself with a friend with undefined features. This shows without words that she’s desperate for a friend. At the end of the story, after Brianna stands up to the bullies and extends her friendship, Amara adds a defining feature of Brianna’s appearance (such as a distinctive hairstyle or piece of jewelry) to her sketch.
NOW, all this is my limited experience with a single screenplay that I wrote in the form of a theatre script (I left all the fancy camera notes and whatever to my teacher who actually knows how to do this stuff XD). But I hope some of that helped!
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Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
Hey! I was sure I’d posted this but somehow it didn’t register. . .?
I’d be willing to do a sketch or two for people! I’m not as good as some people on here but I can draw stuff lol. Here’s a sample of my art:
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
oh, and do you think there’s a chance the person would go into shock? XD
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
@the-inkspiller Hey, uhhhhhhh, question. . . how likely is it that a fall from 25 feet, with the person landing on one leg, would break the femur of that leg? what all do you think would get broken? how long do you think it would take for it to heal. . .?
(thanks, and good luck on your nursing exams if you haven’t finished them yet!!)
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
@dakota Ooh, nice job! That actually kinda reminds me of the song “Twenty-Four” by Switchfoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6oCFVGuSyQ
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
@deeprun You meanie, Kiet’s pain is all because of YOU. YOU started this. Don’t complain when he doesn’t want to come to your house anymore.
@anne_the_noob14 I’m sorry, I am, Kiet can come hang out with you for a whileHearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
*kicks awkwardly at the ground* So I haven’t been around here a ton lately so I don’t know if you’re still on here much. . . but if you are, I kinda need to know a very specific thing about eye lacerations? It’s ok if you don’t have time. XD But if you do just let me know lol
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
@dakota @emberynus-the-dragonslayer @urwen-starial @esmeralda-gramilton @mayacat @kayla-skywriter
And here’s Kedori’s! Gosh I love these two cinnamon rolls
^the drawing’s one I made of him at 10 with his mom, btw
Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.
