Comments on: WAX ON, WAX OFF, WAX CREATIVE

By: Daniel C. Boyer

Daniel C. Boyer — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:43:54 +0000

For whatever it’s worth, in my opinion you don’t need to take it for granted that movies have a plot, ’cause they don’t have to. Some of my favourites don’t, and neither did my student shorts from many a year ago. From my limited experience in film and elsewhere (but maybe it’s not your thing) when you cut yourself loose from this it opens up a whole lot…

By: Little Bill

Little Bill — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:21:12 +0000

PS – It could be worse. I could be playing fantasy football.

By: Little Bill

Little Bill — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:18:09 +0000

Listen here, you crazy frosted haired Viking. You’re on MY site now. Don’t give me any shit.

It’s YOUR fault I don’t have any creative juices when I get home.

By: Vidar

Vidar — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:14:38 +0000

Hey Bill,

Your boss here. Where’s my website. Go back to work.

;-)

By: Rachael Faith

Rachael Faith — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:03:04 +0000

He ate and drank the precious Words —
His Spirit grew robust —
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was Dust —

He danced along the dingy Days
And this Bequest of Wings
Was but a Book — What Liberty
A loosened spirit brings —

-Emily Dickinson

Books! Perhaps reading some new material will set your brain off in a new direction. You never know.

By: Little Bill

Little Bill — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:01:32 +0000

It’s not so much that I want to write like Warren or Chuck or anyone else. It’s that I want my stories to be twisted in a similar way. Basically I was moaning about the ideas I actually come up with aren’t the kind of ideas I’d like to film. My style of writing will still be “how I write” — it’s just my ideas aren’t what I was happy with.

The short and long of it is, I need to write more, and more often.

I actually came up with an idea and instead of mulling it over in my head as I find myself doing all the time, I started writing character studies and plotlines and outlines and am already four pages into a new short.

By: the slackmistress

the slackmistress — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:54:44 +0000

I’d like to write like Warren Ellis or Chuck or James Ellroy. But I don’t write like them – I write like me. I can adjust my plot to a particular genre, but it’s always going to be me.

You’ve got two choices, as I see it. You can solicit for material that’s the sort of material you want to write and figure out how to put together the financing to make it. Or you can write how you write, and direct that. But clearly what’s happening now isn’t working.