Hi,

Everytime i start to write i get distracted or never really get to writing it. Do you guys like make plans to write it on saturday, ir anytim u guys have time off or arnt doing anything. what do you prepare when your are writting. but sometimes i have to much ideas and things but others days no.

i am just wondering what do you guys do or where are you when u are writting

ps . im not nosey lol

I understand your problem and I sympathize. I've had a passion for screenwriting for the last six years, and I still have similar struggles. For me it often comes from a lack of confidence in what I'm writing, or the need for it to be perfect.

It can help me to either give myself deadlines, or get them from other friends who are writers, or filmmakers. It could be as simple as "10 pages of script by Friday." (A friend of mine does this for me when I'm in a situation like yours; it's completely for my benefit.) With that clear goal and deadline, I'm more likely to make the time to write and focus on the project.

I haven't been able to assign myself specific times to write or the like; my process is fairly uneven. I usually don't write well in public areas, and need as few distractions as possible. But sometimes a change of location can help. It all depends.

I hope that helps in some way. Stay with it.

I just write whenever I feel like it. But then again it takes me forever to write anything. I always put my favorite band in my cd player, and just chill out. It helps you should maybe try that too.

Yah, music is my main motivator too.

But I find that when inspiration hits I have to just contstantly write till I'm done or I get in a different mood and writing style and the script no longers flows smoothly. It seems jumpy. So when I write, I just go, and don't stop for like days.

I usually try to write only about once a week, and try to set a mini goal for myself (maybe five pages, or maybe one scene).

However, I also try to keep something handy to write on at all times, because you never know when a funny moment or good idea is going to hit you, and you may want to write it down. My movie that is on this site right now, Mneumonic Devices, was kinda like that...I just grabbed a register receipt out of my pocket when I heard a certain song, and started scribbling down ideas.

I would also be leary about doing this, but I write A LOT when I am driving (on the interstate, of course...not when I am in town). Sometimes, a certain song or sight on the side of the road will set something off, and I will scribble down a page or so. I try to keep a notepad in my car at all times.

Cool thanks for the advice guys il try sometings out

Writing -- screenwriting especially -- is at least as much craft as it is skill. So to become a good writer, you really have to force yourself to write, even when you don't want to. Make sure you write every day, even if it isn't on the script for the project at hand, just keep the juices flowing. (Alan Ball wrote American Beauty a little bit each night; he would come home from work tired and pissed, but he forced himself to write.) And find someone off whom you can bounce ideas and who will hold you accountable, demand to see pages, etc -- professional writers call this person a 'mirror' and they will often reflect back to you your own promise or the promise of the project, even when you might not otherwise be motivated to do the work.

well I usually don't have problems with "writting" its "writing" I have problems with.

Yea u know what u guys are right i should write everyday. Dang though somedays i have to fight my selft to write becasue i have yet gotten all the details down. I gueees i kinda want to make a good final dradt one time. but know il try to change.

Thankx for the advice

I think you should take your mind off writing compeletely--it should just come to you. Like, I was reading this thread to look for ways to get ideas--I've been laying with my eyes closed for a long time and nothing has come to me--and I was suddenly struck with an idea.

To me dude, writing is a process, one that has like 10 steps to see if I like it. But to get ideas that I may like to write, I've tried everything, and found that it really does vary. So, I guess the best thing to do is try everything until you find something that works. From what the others have posted here, I think you have alot of ways to get something off the ground, just don't lose heart, something will come. Also, never let a mental block, or lack of good ideas get you down, you should see the stacks of papers of abandoned projects I got, and you never know, one of those dead ideas may become something someday.

Good luck, and happy writing.

Oh, writing is awesome ! What I like most, each my screenplay demands different ways to get along with - some I write with pencil, other on PC, one at the daytime with family members running all over the place, next - only at nights.

But when I write I allways follow few rules which became habbits for me (at least for now). First of all, I have a long like 6 miles walk to home from University, what helps me to get 90% of all ideas. I reject bad ones, think of new, until they form into scenes. And then, I have a deadline set by an amount of music in my playlist for a sertain project. For my first script I had a single best-off compilation CD, for next two - 5 hours of Sammy Hagar albums. For the one I write now I have 2+ hours of Avril . When the last song ends, I stop writing. For me - it helps a lot.

But once again, I think how do you write is a very personal matter.