The Screenwriter as a Psycho

Here’s the situation: You get a good idea for an screenplay, did your homework making a good “skeleton” and start to write.
Great, the ship has sail!
The writing goes very well. On the first part you made all the settings – establishing the plot, characters, adversaries, etc – and looks reeeaaaally nice.
Then you have to go to the second part, shoot a cannonball directly into the ship’s flotation line: Turn the situation into an interesting mess; kill some characters, etc… in brief, to make their life a ruin.
You must do all that to get a good setup for the third critical part: show the skills of the characters to fix the situation, survive or not and have a most interesting resolution of the story with twist and all the goodies for the audience.
Now, the problem: You have fallen in love with some of the characters whose life you must ruin, and in some cases kill.
Writing sometimes is a craft where you need to bring up you dark side, is sometimes a bloody craft.
Well, let’s work on that second part.
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Good news from Screenplays contests

Recently I make it to the semi finals and quarter finals of a couple of good screenplay contests.

From quarter finals to semi finals at the AAA Screenplay Contest of Creative Screenwriting magazine.

Quarter finalist of the American Screenwriters Association 10th Annual Contest.

The screenplay, ERASE, is a suspense-thriller one.

Log line:
“The dream of a second chance knocks at the door of a failed actor when hired for a movie role -- but he would need to balance himself over the thin line separating performance from reality to save his life from what actually is a twisted and deadly contract.”

Not bad for my first screenplay fully written in English and my first material sent to local contests!

Now, as Dori use to say: “Just keep writing, just keep writing…”

It was a nice sunny day here in NYC, almost 75 degrees. Went to the downtown outdoors with my muse to get some inspiration from our good old friend the Sun.

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So, I'm new in the blog world, let's see how the experience goes.
Yeap, as the tittle says, I'm a writer.
Fiction is my field, but the boundaries between fiction and reality are narrow. That's why there's a lot of real facts in what I write.
Writing is not everything to me. It is indeed one of the most important aspects of my professional life and I dedicate on a daily and focused basis many hours every day to do it.
It's a joy.
However, living is what matters. To taste the flavor of what life can bring to you or you find around.
And the stories come from there.
Anyway, I think I'm writing when I'm writing but also writing the story of my life every nanosecond.
Hope the final draft will be fabulous!