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Comment by Tennyson E. Stead on June 26, 2011 at 11:55am

However, I do write very manly poetry.

Comment by Tennyson E. Stead on June 26, 2011 at 11:53am

I'll keep writing poetry until someone starts a discussion up in this bitch!

Comment by Tennyson E. Stead on November 1, 2010 at 8:07pm

Put your material out there, Edward! Share it with as many people as you can. Pursuant to our conversation, there are a few sites you should know about aside from Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and Linked In. Amplify.com allows you to post a blog on multiple platforms at once, so one blog submission can appear on every blogging site - thus making you easier to find. Twitterfeed.com can take an RSS feed and forward the titles and links to your social media sites. Ping.fm will update status on every social media site simultaneously. This network was built on Ning.com, where you can build a community around literally anything...

Basically, you need to establish community. Giving is the best way to do that, and it's how you attract people to participate. That's why you signed up here, after all!

Comment by Edward Argraves on October 31, 2010 at 10:01pm

okay so I have been writing for years and getting better. My original stuff was bad, but I have compared the writings and have found great improvement. It has always been my dream to become a writer and get published. I need to get ideas so I can get a fan base and get started. Anyone got any ideas or ways I can move up the ladder? Thank you for your time.

Comment by Ari Lardoni on May 24, 2010 at 3:47pm

It's been a while since I have been here.

How's everyone?

I have a question for all of you interested. It's not really a writting Q but it relates.

I have a meet with an agency coming up in August. They will be "evaluating" my work. Here's how it was explained to me. Before they jump into something IE signing me they want us to get to know each other. The agent in question said he like me a lot like my work ethic and passion for the business but wanted to see my work. Sound a bit odd. He like what I send him though. So, my question is, comes August what do I do? What can I expect? Do I send them all of my script? Do I send synopsis and see which ones they want?

If anyone has any experience with this it would be most helpful. I'm a little nervous.

Thanks in advance.

Ari

Comment by Tennyson E. Stead on April 11, 2010 at 11:59am

Great question, Angela! The fast answer is that every piece of dialogue is a piece of action, and should be treated at such - you're right about that.

Obviously, Cameron felt that in the world he had created, with the characters in the scene, that was how Jack would go about accomplishing the task of getting that man to speed up. If you see a better way in your own writing, you should always take it.

Right above these comments, there's a little button that says "Start Discussion". If you use that button, it'll make these questions into their own threads - and let the whole community know what's on your mind. I'll set this one up...

Comment by Angela Shafer on April 2, 2010 at 8:15am

Thank you ever so much for the invite, Tennyson. I was just thinking about what topic I would like to discuss. I have a tendency to pick on the James Cameron film 'Titanic' because I don't think it was very well-written, though it won a slew of Oscars and, until 'Avatar,' which I haven't seen, it was the highest-grossing film of all time. There is one moment that stands out in my mind as a good line in the wrong scene context. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are trying to get up a set of steps to make their way to the back of the ship (my ship jargon escapes me at the moment) because the ship is about to tip up and go into the ocean. As they begin to ascend the steps, Leonardo, as Jack, stands behind a praying, slow-moving man. He says to the man something along the lines of 'can you walk through that valley of the shadow of death a little faster?' It is a funny line, but when you're trying to get yourself and the woman you love to safety, or at least as safe as you can get, do you stop to make jokes? How many precious seconds were lost while delivering that line? No wonder he ended up becoming a blueberry popsickle.
So, here's my writing question. When you know you have a good line, but it seems slightly askew of the scene's context, do you strike the line for a better time or do you leave it in and tell the actor to make it work? I say strike the line, but what do my fellow writers think?

Comment by Tennyson E. Stead on April 1, 2010 at 10:04pm

Awesome, Ari - please post questions, start discussions, and help get things moving. Seems like this is one area where people like dialogue.

Comment by Ari Lardoni on April 1, 2010 at 3:23pm

Yo dowgg,

Thanks for the invite. Looks really cool.

You'll see me around here.

Ari