Keeping a Script Writer’s Journal
January 29, 2008 by Heather Goldsmith
Filed under Home & Living
While reading The West Australian on the weekend I came across an interesting call for script writers from His Majesty’s Theatre. The call is for West Australian script writers to create a monologue for the competition. The winner could bag $3000, which is Aussie dollars in case you didn’t realise.
The call for entries got me thinking that script writers should keep journals, too. Where else can you collect snippets of overheard conversation, inspirational movie lines, characterisation work, movie plot ideas, movie/script analysis, scene ideas and visual tags? I’ve been searching for more info online, but haven’t found much to help in this area. If you’re a script writer and use a journal to help you with your work, please leave a comment or link to anything relevant to this topic.
Even if you can’t enter this competition you might want to try your hand at a script in your journal or even a monologue. The idea may bring a new perspective to some part of your life you’ve been overlooking.
Heather
TAG! You’re it! (I didn’t start this, you understand, I just help perpetuate it…)
OR my Poets Corner WA website @
http://geocites.com/poetscornerwa
I keep a notebook with me at all times – have loads of notebooks full of scraps of paper and pictures, news items, momentoes in my study.
But once I write something down, I never look at it again because it’s visually locked into my brain.
Nice to see you’re still involved and writing, Heather. You give your base as Queensland but really, you’re still in Perth – right?
Hi Sue,
I’m glad to know you’re using notebooks & journals for your writing & poetry. Thanks for the comment. Do you mean my info on Facebook? That probably shows that I was born in QLD. I lived there for some time, but I am definitely still in Perth.