I would love to write a script. I am completely ignorant about format, although I know there's software out there to do that part for you (or at least set up the basics).

Kiera Cass self-published her first novel, The Siren, and her second, The Selection, got picked up by HarperTeen. She developed a nice following on Twitter even before the contract, and she makes adorable YouTube videos about writing and the process (I'm not sure if she did that before The Selection got picked up or not). I like this one, although I will caution that she tends to the cute side.

What she's saying is worth a listen, though.

I tried last year. Total fail. Maybe I could do it again, but there's something so "Group Hug!" about it all, I find it offputting.

Tried ... what?

Script Frenzy, not your friend's twitter.(I have a twitter I don't use, but...in the time it took me to type that thought...crosspost!) Stupid childhood brain damage! D'oh.

Liking the Kiera Cass vids - thanks Amy!

Amy, Kristen uses Final Draft (Tim does, too, I think it's industry standard) that is pretty helpful because it formats for you. I think you can get a free trial if you want to try your hand at it, and then you can just save as PDFs.

I've tried it, and became very hyperaware of time. It's a good exercise in word economics.

To be clear, though, it was the worst thing that happened to paper. Just awful. I had no sense of timing. It was Buffy spec, that answered the question, "how does Buffy afford all those ridiculously expensive clothes?"

As it turns out, Sunnydale has a very lucrative death industry. Aside from fortunes being made in the coffin/funeral business, it's also loaded with consignment shops, where the wealthy grieving parents of dead teenagers drop off gently used designer clothes, shoes and handbags.

A fashionista ghoul of some sort actually chooses victims by wardrobe. She kills and eats her victims, and then gets a great deal on clothes.

The idea was crappy, and the execution was worse. But I wanted to say something about the monied in Sunnydale, and that their economy was death driven. And that Buffy was somehow cutting into the profits with the slaying.

Aside from fortunes being made in the coffin/funeral business, it's also loaded with consignment shops, where the wealthy grieving parents of dead teenagers drop off gently used designer clothes, shoes and handbags.

I like this part, though! That makes sense.

Maybe I'll try that software eventually. I love to write dialogue, and I don't completely suck at it, which is one of the only reasons I want to try scriptwriting. I'm pretty sure most of my ideas are better off prose, though. And I have no industry contacts and no knowledge of how selling scripts works, so.

I have Celtx, cause you can get it for free.

I have a new short story 'The Adventures of Lloyd' written for a contest. It's supposed to be a parody of a fantasy-fiction cliche. Or cliches as the case is here. There's a bit of swearing in there.

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Password is 'foamy'. I have e-reader versions there as well.