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Co-writing 1
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By Dorin C
Created 3 years, 2 months ago
Edited 2 years, 3 months ago
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Let's just brainstorm, for the sake (not saké, you alcohol fans :D ) of experimenting.
Don't get paralysis by analysis, and don't let perfectionism trap you.
Just whatever comes to your mind, lightheartedly...
But, if that's too much, maybe you can contribute...a word? I guess that would be too tedious and impractical.
What do you think?
:)
You should contact Djimon Hounsou's agent, or him directly. Djimon should be helpful and receptive to your artistic aspirations, based on similar background. I hope...
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We could edit and re-edit this anytime, but for now I say let everybody express themselves, in their own voice and flavor of English, "siamsein" ("do you see what I'm saying")?
:D
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Would you like to insert/format yourself your contribution, or would you like somebody else to do it?
It may end up as a horror (or horrible) story.
It's up to us.
As I said, let's not sweat now the formatting mistakes - let's keep writing. We might edit later.
You learn best by trying yourself, while learning from others.
This script is just for fun, for experimenting.
I edit some, and anybody can edit, including my edits, too.
Everybody can try to make sense of it, by coagulating the story in his own vision.
Thank you everybody for participating so far.
:)
No new writer would really have read his script to say that! I am sure.
Dawn
I should go and edit now, after some readers have presumably got my point that "co-writing can easily go to the dogs, or pigs, unless somebody edits drastically, with a better vision, hopefully".
So its a comedy?
And theres no real plot? its just as random as it can be?
Might as well call the script "Kevin" then ha ha.
My point is already proven - co-writing is worse, in general, than single-writing.
There are exceptions, of course - harmonious, congruent, and compatible collaborations.
Even 2 GREAT writers might not be able to convene and agree on a joint script - in which case the script will be...disjointed.
In our case here, all it takes is a lousy writer - the most recent editor at any given moment - to butcher the work of the previous contributors.
And conversely, if the most recent editor salvages, from the savages.
:)
Go ahead and change the title (for now) to Kevin - it's within the rules of the game, right?
And the two writers who wrote it said the way they did it, was they'd have a general outline of the script, and then they'd write their own version seperately. One I think was better at dialogue type gags, and the other preffered visual, kinda goofy stuff.
Then they'd give it to the other to edit.
And they made the deal that no matter what one person thought was funny in their script, if the other didn't like it it had to be changed.
So they said it was frustrating to have something they thought was really funny be taken out, but it ended up like they were writing stuff to impress the other, which made it sort of fun.
I always thought that was the best way to do it, make it clear that no matter what, if something wasn't agreed on by everyone, it had to be scrapped, makes it harder alright but who doesn't like a challenge.
Anyway, babbling aside, might come back to this when I have my own comedy written :)
Also, maybe we should do our thing, individually, not-to-be-shared, and when we want a respiro, inspiration, challenge, fun moment, clash moment, etc. - then we could return to a session of co-writing. On that script, or another script.
The plot could be existent, or non-existent. An alternative to struggling alone at your (other) script.
it doesn't look finished... any plans to resuming it???
cheers,
jj.
I guess I don't want to finish a script, edits and all, just to have it rejected. I think I will explore ways to actually entirely create a movie. As Billy Wilder said: "I became a film director, to protect the script."