I haven´t read anything else by him, but I too just love those apocalyptic stories, and gave it a try. But be warned. It is very dark and very depressing.
I had a post-apocalypse story in a small press collection last year. I don't consider most of them depressing after having read Joe R. Lansdale's "Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back". Don't read that if you're about to go on vacation!
For a couple of months now, I have this keen idea, that I want to write a screenplay with the title "Farewell". Just this one word, "Farewell". It seems such an interesting title, but the problem is, I haven´t come up with a story, butit surel must be about saying good bye, or something like that. But I´d love to write this script.
Did you ever come up with a story, just because you had the title?
I thought of a title, "Ways Out" that I thought evocative. I carried it around for a long time, looking for the right story to go with it.I wrote a story called "Ways Out" and kind of liked it.
I finally threw in the towel after approximately 500 pages of rewrites on a 35 page story. Dead.
I thought of a title, "Ways Out" that I thought evocative. I carried it around for a long time, looking for the right story to go with it.I wrote a story called "Ways Out" and kind of liked it.
I finally threw in the towel after approximately 500 pages of rewrites on a 35 page story. Dead.
500 pages? Wow, that´s a real novel right there...
I must admit I've been struggling with writing lately. Two years since I directed a short film of my own writing, and I've been editing in most of that time. There are many good ideas (some of which are not to be attempted within the constraints of a short film), but I find it's very hard not to write cliched, shlocky scenarios that feel like other films.
I have a titel that I absolutely love, "Farawell", and I woud love to write a script around that title, but yet I still have to come up with a good story...
Agents and producers usually guage their interest in material based solely on a log line and then a copy of the completed script.
Treatments are usually reserved for writers who already have credentials and are attempting to sell a story on spec (without having written the script as yet).
A treatment is considered the first step to selling an idea from an already established writer...but a completed screenplay is necessary for those who haven't sold or whose credentials aren't known.
