Wednesday Night Writes

Mr. Write

100 pages

Posted
April 23, 2008 - 4:58pm

Wednesday Night Writes

Well, it's almost 7pm and I'm here, ready to roll.

Lucille P Robinson

Posted
April 23, 2008 - 5:02pm

RE: Wednesday Night Writes

I just arrived, but must leave again. Be back in 5.

Lucille Perkins Robinson
http://lucilleperkinsrobinson.com
http://blog.lucilleperkinsrobinson.com

Mr. Write

100 pages

Posted
April 23, 2008 - 5:09pm

RE: Wednesday Night Writes

Don't feel bad, I'm just starting now, and it's 8 after...

Bond, 20lb Bond....

Lucille P Robinson

Posted
April 23, 2008 - 5:19pm

RE: Wednesday Night Writes

I've done poorly. I've accomplished 3 pages. My story is about a young woman who at the age of 16-17, watched 3 gang members break into her home and kill her parents. She flees to uncle's house and is still there two years later. During this time she's learned karate and earned the black belt. Her uncle, although an American, taught her everything he learned in the Army Special Forces. He also taught her how to kill a man with one jab.

I was stuck here. then i signed in earlier and reread the comment someone made about when stuck have a man with a gun enter. The first time i read it, it didn't do anything for me, but tonight, stuck as i was, it seemed the right thing to do so i went into my file and wrote a scene. The heroine is standing before the full length mirror in the hall way when the front door bursts open as it did the night her parents died. Two gang members stand there one with gun one with knife. uncle sits on sofa. gunman tells heroine she must go with them. She recognizes him as one who killed parents. uncle stands up and gets hit with gun, not shot just knocked out. Knife man goes toward heroine and she does that step to one side, trip, grab wrist of knife hand deal and now she's holding knife to man's throat asking what if i don't go and gunman says we kill you. seemingly in one motion she slices knifeman's throat and moves to jump and karate kick the gunman. a slice there and both men lay dead. uncle helps heroine dispose of bodies.

i know she has to mingle with the gang without them knowing her, but to get her in there is a stumper to me. how do i infiltrate the gang and kill the other two men responsible for parents' death? what kind of events am i looking at here? what's possibly going to happen before they realize who she is?

Lucille Perkins Robinson
http://lucilleperkinsrobinson.com
http://blog.lucilleperkinsrobinson.com

Lucille P Robinson

Posted
April 23, 2008 - 5:25pm

RE: Wednesday Night Writes

I like your signature, Bond. How does Bond get into the enemy's camp and play spy?

Lucille Perkins Robinson
http://lucilleperkinsrobinson.com
http://blog.lucilleperkinsrobinson.com

Mr. Write

100 pages

Posted
April 23, 2008 - 5:35pm

RE: Wednesday Night Writes

Sounds like you're getting past your block, and that's great. I'm still chugging away--I think this is supposed to be for an hour? 7 to 8?

And the bond thing always struck me as a funny way to judge paper quality. Whenever shopping for paper or what have you, I look for ways to sneak in the James Bond signature line, and there it is:

Bond, 20lb Bond....

At least 20 pound bond is what's on my shelf right now. I think.

Lucille P Robinson

Posted
April 23, 2008 - 5:48pm

RE: Wednesday Night Writes

It's supposed to last until 8 and there's a little more than 10 minutes left.

this is my first year in script frenzy, but i guarantee i'll be better prepared for next year cause i'm going to practice using that Celtx program and see if i can't find a few scripts to read during the year. inother words, learn all i can. i have learned one thing. i much prefer writing without having to describe every little detail in dress and setting. Good luck with your writing. I'm signing off now.

Lucille Perkins Robinson
http://lucilleperkinsrobinson.com
http://blog.lucilleperkinsrobinson.com

Mr. Write

100 pages

Posted
April 23, 2008 - 6:08pm

RE: Wednesday Night Writes

Well, I've done 6 solid pages and a line or two in the hour, which is something, as most of them did NOT have a lot of dialog on them. That's the first really large block of action in my script. Most everything else has been broken up by comments, etc. This was almost like noveling, but in a bare bones, just the facts sort of way.

Sorry only two of us showed.

Last year--the first Frenzy--there was a much better LA showing. I failed to finish. I didn't have Celtx either.

And last year was the first NANO I couldn't finish in several years worth. Let's hope this good frenzy effort is a hint of future NANO success come November. I hate to not come skidding across the finish line as the clock strikes.

Bond, 20lb Bond....

TheRubberChicken

43 pages

Posted
April 27, 2008 - 1:14am

RE: Wednesday Night Writes

Hmmmmm... Could she find something on one of the dead gang members that tells her where the gang meets? She could go there and claim to be a relative of the 'missing' gang member -- who didn't know him personally, but his mother asked her to look for him. That could be a way to become part of the gang...

Sorry I missed the write-in Lucille! Please email me privately on Frenzy Mail with your address so I can send you your rubber chicken award for showing up for the write-in!

Christee