Plea for help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Indy Anna]

Ok people heres the thing I really wanna write a script. I've written one but i want to do another one. the thing is I can't come up with a decent story. Its like everything I come up with somehow relates or is even somwhat similar to films i've seen before. Does anybody have any decent story idea for me or even suggestions on how to come up with a gd plot? I would gladly apreciate any replies to this post. in the mean time i'l post some the other script that i wrote.

[Reigh Kaufman]

I have a million ideas for scripts, all of them discarded with due process except the three i am currently working on. Depending on the type of film you want to write, I can't really offer much advice, however in two previous threads titled: Please respond to this idea, it's one of the few I really like AND How do you get ideas(discuss)I posted two short synopsis of ideas I had. Feel free to use whatever you like if you can find a passion for the material...I defintitely won't sue (unless you make millions)...

Good luck.

[PhantomRhyter]

Indy Anna,

What I suggest is a change in your viewing and reading habits. It seems that a lot of aspiring screenplay writers are making the same mistake-- namely watching too many movies. Viewing too many films clutters the mind with other people's stories, leaving little room for one's own original thoughts.

Personally, I do not get my inspirations for stories by watching movies (and I watch very few actually). I get my inspiration from reading. Generally I restrict my reading to subjects that interest me such as science, religion, the occult, history, etc. Hoever, once I got a grnd idea for a story by reading a crazy article in a tabloid magazine called the "Weekly World News" that's chock full of all sorts of crazy stories and urban legends.

Actually for starters, I'd begin with one of these crazy tabloid rags if I were you. Now they print their stories as 'fact', but I'd rate them as wild fiction or delusional fantasies. Anyway, you can read one or more of these stories like I did and come away with a whole other idea for a script.

Anyway the best single advice given to me as a writer from a fellow writer was this: When you're not writing, occupy your time by reading. Try it out.

Chills,
PhantomRhyter