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Hi. My name is Velvet Delorey, and I'm a screenwriter (s'pose I should
say "scriptwriter", since that's the title of this group). Anyway, a
friend of mine and I have been discussing this precise subject through
email, and we both noticed that this (unmoderated) newsgroup is
totally empty....and we're starting to mailbomb each other <grin>.

So, we've decided to get together in this forum - and all others are
more than welcome!

C'mon, people, there have _got_ to be some scriptwriters out there
somewhere who are willing to talk about the subject seriously! (Don't
get me started on bit.listserv.screen-l. Please. My blood
pressure....)

First of all, let's lay a few groundrules:

We don't want beginners. For the simple reason that you might get
lost. Talk will probably turn to the technical around here. If you're
interested, but just starting out, watch current movies and then read
the scripts they're based on (the usual advice), but (the unusual
advice) sit down and WRITE first....then join this discussion.....<g>

After all, that's why we're called scriptWRITERS, correct?

Anyway, a brief introduction to the topic(s) we will be covering, and
ourselves (my friend and I).

I am Canadian, I got my high school education through distance
learning, and have little to no use whatsoever for University, or the
stuffed talking heads that come out of them.

That said, my friend (Anna Keaney, btw) is a University film studies
graduate, and she's not stuffed in the least! <bg>

She can provide whatever other bio she wants on herself.

Now that that's over with, here's our current discussion:

We are currently hashing out technics vs. non-technics in film. Keaney
(Or Anna) feels that creativity is almost the only thing necessary for
filmmaking. She also feels that a script is not required for a good
film to be made. I think she wants to be a writer/director, and is
coming at this subject from an indie POV. Unlike yours truly.

Grovelling apologies, keaney, if I've misquoted. (Correct me if I'm
wrong!)

I, on the other hand, am coming from the _real_ world. <G> I haven't
got any professional credits to my name yet (some semi-pro ones, but
those are disaster stories _no one_ wants to hear). but I'd like to
think I'm fairly well-grounded in the industry, and am looking to
focus on science fiction television in particular, and all I want to
be when I grow up is a _working_ screenwriter (I'm already a
screenwriter, I just have to get that "working" thing in....).

Well, I think that about covers it, in a nutshell. No one else was
here but some "FREE MONEY" spam, so we decided we'd up the
signal-to-noise ratio a little.

Well, let's get to it!

Velvet Delorey
hdelorey@islandnet.com