STC Review
posted by Patricia Burroughs aka Pooks @ 11:25 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2006
the official pooks site ...
- is right here.
- is right here.
- Name: Patricia Burroughs aka Pooks
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- get kinky with me
- I Got Kinky
- GTD while STC
- Talisman
- Everything's Coming Up Roses (lots of pics)
- How in the freaking hell?
- My Primary Colors
- Oh! Tonight's the Night!
- Remember the Alamo
- Programming Question
- Elementary
- spinning
- the sorbet course (with a side order of heroin)
- iâm killing hollywood
- hl, wt (first in a series)
- resolutions and revolutions
- fresh start
- still saving the cat
- go forth and write
- the catch
- cat! saving!
- cat saving with the moleskine
- bbc radio scotland gets in on the game
- me talking to myself
- gtd while stc
- stc review
- saving the cat storyboard
- candace
- diane
- gwenda
- jette
- lacy
- nic
- rob
- the admiral
- the other rob
- steve
- toni
- cynthia
- alexandra
- christina
- ronniebee
- chris
- julie
- getting things done (david allen)
This is evidently the hottest organizational book/system out there right now, but I hadn't heard of it until one day when I heard of it twice. There are all sorts of websites devoted to "Getting Things Done" and I finally got curious enough to buy the book. Will let you know what I think.
- skinny legs and all (tom robbins)
So, this book is about Salome and Jezebel and Ellen Cherry. I think. I'm not sure. But I'm enjoying the heck out of it.
- save the cat (blake snyder)
A solid process for developing ideas and outlining screenplays. I'm working my way through it, and so far am enjoying the process.
- on writing (stephen king)
If you're interested in writing, you should read this book. Even if you're afraid of the dark and reading Stephen King gives you nightmares -- you still should read this book. It's that good. And if you'd prefer to listen to the audibook, that's fine, too. Stephen King is a very good reader as well as writer.
- soul to soul (stevie ray vaughan)
The original CD, however. I see here that there's a new remastered one with previously unreleased cuts. Yay! New Stevie Ray!
As I finish a book (or view a movie, play or DVD) I'll post my thoughts in my book blog, guilty of reading.
and the book blog ...
About Me
current script status
save the cat prepif you're a texan
recently guilty
guilty of pontificating about writing
guilty of being friends of pooks
innocent (to the best of my knowledge) writing blogs that I read anyway
what i'm reading
what i'm listening to
6 Comments:
Oh, look at you with 62% prep done. What a show-off.
:)
Well ... I'm kind of guessing. I'm not very good at numbers.
I mean, how DO you count "logline" and the various steps up to the cards?
Grrrr.
I know. It's too much to ask -- deal with HTML and do math as well. :P (for me anyway)
When I put the prep progress bar on my blog I thought, well add up the steps - 15 beats, 40 scene cards and whatever -- that'd be 100%. So, if there are 67 steps and 67 = 100% then all I'd have to do is a little math to know what % of 67 (100) would be the progress if I'd completed 3 of the steps. And then I thought, are you insane? Maybe I'll just put how many days I worked on the prep before I was finished.
Like figuring out the plot isn't hard enough -- I'm going to take up math at this late date. Don't think so.
Okay, I did it in order. Starting at the beginning of the book. So by the time I got to the scene cards I felt like I'd already done a lot.
As of yesterday I had 22 scene cards done (including the major beats). I figured if I add the other I've done over 50%. But since I'm not sure how long it will take to do the other cards I dont want to jinx myself by giving credit for TOO much, so -- 62%.
Math. My way.
But now that I look more closely...
I probably have more scenes than I'm giving myself credit for. I've sometimes put more two of three scene-post-its on one card, because I thought of them as two or three parts of a whole. But in some cases, they may still play out as separate scenes. In one case the three short bits together wont take a page so I'll leave them on the same card. In others, I need to give that more thought.
In other words, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, do y'all?
No, but thanks for asking.
:)
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