Where do you get Screenwriting Inspiration?

Where do these ideas come from? How can you get inspired with what has been called the most difficult of all art forms to master.

For me it comes to me either when I am driving or when I am sleeping. One of the problems when your are sleeping is that very often you forget what you were thinking about when you wake up. I am definitely not writing down ideas in the middle of the night so I don't forget my thoughts, but maybe I should.

Great ideas for a movie are few and far between and that certainly comes through when you consider how many actually good high quality movies are made each year. The reason for this is because of politics and other unknown reasons, but the obvious other reason is because it is extremely difficult to think about a great idea for a movie and then see it through to its completion. This is especially true if your new to the field and trying to break in for the first time, trying to get past all the middle men and agents out there.

What I have done so far and I have started writing my 4th screenplay, is to start writing once you get the new idea or inspiration to make sure that the idea doesn't die on the vine. Start the process moving forward before you lose or forget your new idea!

The main thing is to KEEP WRITING!

Screenwriting: Review of a craft

Screenwriting is a job, and its job you have to do every day. I have to admit that I don't write every day but I do continue to write a book about my now completed IT career, which was very challenging.

To be honest its been a very tough process even getting an agent, and I have been quite amazed at how impossible a hill this new profession has been to climb. I have learned a great deal over the past year, but I need to know much more.

So how did i start to learn this craft. First I read many screenwriting books and there are quite a few below and they are valuable for screenwriting tips and screenwriting ideas. Feel free to select the ones you like below which will take you to Amazon.com. I also got a few reviews of my first screenplay entitled "RB" on FIVER, which is a website where you pay 5 dollars for a small task and some advice. I have been both impressed and very disappointed at some of the results of my five dollar reviews. I also see many movies every year and i have also started a blog about my movie reviews. In my many years of seeing many movies i am always stunned at how many bad movies are made when you consider how hard it is to break into the field as either a screenwriter or actor or director.

I have also entered a few screenwriting competitions, the best one I have heard about is BLUECAT. Its important to research and find out which ones are the best ones, because you don't want to waste your money. Screenwriting is hard work and there is no magic bullet. Keep writing is the secret. If your inclined, perhaps a screenwriting school would be something you would want to try.

SCREENWRITING SUCCESS

There is nothing easy about breaking into this business. The first challenge is getting an agent, and even that is difficult.



I have written 3 screenplays so far, my first is entitled RB - for Running Back. Its a story about a young man named Jay who was an exceptional athlete in high school and was a stand out running back on his high school football team. Unfortunately in his senior year he gets hurt and all his dreams of College and the NFL are lost on one play. Ten years later what could have been haunts him as he goes through life in his boring job and it even affects his relationship with his girlfriend.


It turns out that his biggest fan in high school is also a great filmmaker and he puts videos out on YOUTUBE showing Jay's greatest breakaway runs in high school. These videos make getting over the past much more difficult for our hero and then the other player who caused Jay's injury gets out of prison and that leads to a climactic ending.


Jay's last name Franklin is the name of a good friend I met on my last ever contract in IT, Roland Franklin. Unfortunately Roland passed away back in May at only 48. It was a horrible shock.

During the last year I have gotten screen coverage for my script, which I don't recommend because its mostly about paying people to review your script and things don't go anywhere after that.


What I have done is probably the best and cheapest current way of at least getting some feedback about your work. Try www.fiverr.com and pay five dollars to have part or all of your screenplay critiqued by someone who has some experience and expertise with the art of screenwriting.


Screenwriting has been called the most difficult of all art forms to master.


As I have heard from others so many times; keep writing and creating every day.