SearchingSirocco

Writing. It is one of the most beautiful things invented by human beings. The invention of writing has opened so many ways to store the human experiences life for infinite time. It is a process of recording your thinking and giving a life to it and putting your brains on paper. But most the writers I meet here in film industry have no idea how to write a film script or screenplay or what is the difference between the two. There are lots of words that you are going to hear from the mouth of producers who will ask you to present them with Loglines, Synopsis, Screenplay, Story, Script or may be some new fancy words and you  might get afraid as well as confused what they actually mean because the meaning of these words might take away your job from you. So let me just help you by describing a little bit what these words really mean. These are the definitions that I have made up due time and these are definitely not standards, but they will help you understand these things better....

1.     Don’t think about publishing your book before finishing it. 2.     Write daily. No matter what. Make it a discipline to write something daily. Delete it the next day but write daily. 3.     First draft is not what you publish. So write whatever you want. It will get edited eventually. So never be afraid to write your thoughts. 4.     Don’t write every chapter on the same word document. Fresh start every chapter in a new word page document. Connect them later. 5.     Don’t give your manuscript to anyone to read before you finish it and until you have revised it thoroughly. 6.     Read biographies of writers. It really motivates. 7.     Read Read Read and read more. It helps. You can never be a good writer unless you are a good reader. 8.     Keep a notepad. You will have your best thoughts when you will...