That urge? It is just a feeling developed over time. Typically, I will approach approximately 100-pages of handwritten notes when the urge to move to the digital world becomes too much. With a nice black leather portfolio to keep the notepads from getting disheveled, my basic tool is still pen and paper. I have probably been using these notepads as long as I can remember, which is why I buy them in bulk.
That means a lot towards hand fatigue when you write a lot. The notepad has a matte-type finish and the black gel ink rolls well over it, unlike a ball-tip rolling pen, with less pressure needed. I use Ampad Evidence Gray Pastel Perforated Pad, Size 8-1/2″ x 11-3/4″ notepads because the white paper is a little too bright for my eyes when writing under a table lamp. The black ink and texture of it makes scanning that much more legible and clearer. I use a Cross pen with black gel ink rolling ball for Selectip pens. I will write with pen and paper to start development, because I still like the creative feel of pen and paper.
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Pen and Paper Development SystemĪnd, sometimes a full blown project is created. Sometimes that is all that will ever happen to that idea. Sometimes, I will only have a folder and one text document in the DOCS folder with the premise of the idea I had found. Typically, I will have DOCS, IMAGES, SCREENPLAY, STORYBOARDS, ACTORS, BUDGETS, etc. With a title something to the effect of, ‘Untitled Series Project No 15’ or, ‘Untitled Feature Film Project No 32,’ I will create a folder under my system, and create a folder structure under that as needed. Something I saw, heard, overheard conversation, historical event, conversation with friends, the news, etc. I still use a combination of pen and paper, supported by digital solutions.Īn idea will come to me from anywhere.
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Over the years based upon trial and error, my own system has developed, including exploring what other creatives try.
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Sometimes they turn into a whole film.”įind a system, pencil and paper, software, index cards, or whatever works for you, create those ideas and develop them into stories, or series bibles. “The fact is, a lot of people have ideas, but I’ve conditioned myself, as a storyteller, to latch onto ideas and explore them. “Loving” (2016) directed and written by Jeff Nichols Remember the butts, above? The inspiration of an idea is one thing, the execution of that idea into a stated goal, a story, a screenplay, a series bible, is what Hollywood cares about. This pretty much sums up all in Hollywood – nobody cares about your idea. – Jeff Nichols In Hollywood Nobody Cares About Your Idea That’s a real fool’s game, though it’s tempting.” “Don’t think about what the industry wants out of you, or what was successful last week. Sometimes with input from directors and/or producers, or even co-writers. In the feature film world, solo screenwriters typically find those ideas and craft stories out of them. This workflow is typical in television writing staffs working with the showrunners, creators, and similar creatives.
Jeff Nichols ( “Loving” “Midnight Special” “Mud”) states in his MovieMaker Magazine interview, inspiration is all around you, you essentially have to find a method to capturing those ideas and determining whether or not they make a story, a feature film or, series screenplay.Ī lot of creatives I have worked with in television usually have a nugget of an idea and depend on teams to add-to, or subtract-from, those nuggets until a wholly fleshed-out idea, or concept, is realized. The true creatives develop ideas based upon their goals and collaborate with other creatives to bring those ideas into life as a story. Typical inferiority complex in a town (industry) where collaboration is key to success. They are really afraid of someone having a better idea than them. Those “creatives” do not want to hear ideas from others, because it was not their idea to begin with. Hence, the apocryphal stance there are no new ideas. You probably are thinking, “Then how do they get ideas?” Most steal them from others. Most creatives I have encountered in my career are completely closed-off to ideas. Sounds like some strange paradox, doesn’t it? Though some will opine ‘ideas in Hollywood are like butts, everybody has one,’ sometimes two, most will not admit to being open to ideas.
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