Love and Hate

[zagoraz]

I swear. Sometimes I love what I write, then read it the next day and hate it. Then read it again the next day and fall in love with it again. It can be the same sentence, the same bit of dialogue. Anything. It's frustrating to no end. Please tell me this happens to some of you as well. Sometimes I think I'm going crazy.

[aspiringwriter]

Don't feel bad...I do the same exact thing...I start out with something and I love it....then I hate it the next day!!!

[Joe Calabrese]

You're not crazy, you-re a screenwriter (you could say that is an oxymoron) :hooray: :hooray: :idea: :banana: :Sun: :ROFL:

[bison]

Sometimes I think you people are fulla crap; the next day I think you're brilliant!
Excuse me, my other self is calling me.

[dpaterso]

With me it's great enthusiasm followed closely by non-enthusiasm. I save love and hate for other writers' script pages.

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

[icerose]

With me it's great enthusiasm followed closely by non-enthusiasm. I save love and hate for other writers' script pages.

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

That's me. I don't think I have ever hated my work but I do go through varying degrees of enthusiasm. Especially the harder ones to write (which I am discovering often turn out better). This is why I have several WIP's going on at once so when I lose enthusiasm for one project I work on another so I am always writing something.

[dpaterso]

I don't think I have ever hated my work but I do go through varying degrees of enthusiasm. Especially the harder ones to write (which I am discovering often turn out better). This is why I have several WIP's going on at once so when I lose enthusiasm for one project I work on another so I am always writing something.
!rorrim a ni gnikool ekil s'tI

kereD-
.ytinasni ,slevon ,syalpneercs ,seirots - egaP beW s'kereD (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

[writersliving]

I never ever hated what I write infact. I think I got great Ideas, but since I'm not a writer yet. Nobody can't see my Ideas.

[preyer]

like IR, my biggest problem is maintaining interest and enthusiasm. sometimes i'll hate the first draft of a section and basically have to totally redo it, but i expect that so some degree. that's not the norm, either. i write slow, though, so that helps me not quite hate things so much, lol. i find if i slow down and get things as good as i can the first time, not only does it stand up better for the second draft, but it gives me time to ponder more on what's happening. course, some advocate just writing it down as fast as possible, that's just not me.

i will say this, though: i tend to write a helluva lot better longhand than i do on the computer. try it if you feel your work isn't what you feel it should be. don't ask me why longhand tends to give better results, maybe because it forces you to slow down. :)

[GonnaBeFamous]

Actually my problem isn't loving or hating my work. I can easily reedit my work and do it with ease. However when someone completely doesn't like anything of my screenpla when I feel it is good, thats a problem because then they are questioning my perspective and reality of how i feel about my script.

[Optimus]

Eh...the only things I hate are the previous drafts of my scripts.

Like, the first draft of my first screenplay?

I thought it was gold.

GOLD, I TELL YA!

However, reading it now, it's utter horsepuckey.

With the next two rewrites, I thought each time that I'd polished sh!t into gold.

GOLD, I TELL YA!

Looking back now? Each time, I was wrong.

So, when I'm writing something, I don't "hate" it then, but if it actually is terrible, I'll hate it months later after I've improved it immensely and have something to contrast it against.

[icerose]

!rorrim a ni gnikool ekil s'tI

kereD-
.ytinasni ,slevon ,syalpneercs ,seirots - egaP beW s'kereD (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

Ummm translation please! Otherwise I will have to send it to my friend in Scotland and see if he knows what it means. :P

My problem with my work is also that I think it is great and then when I get some criticism that helps me to see my own flaws (I seem hopelessly blind until then), then I realize how much work it really needs and that is why I go for the criticism.

[Optimus]

Ice,

Hold Derek's post up to a mirror.


(or, just read it backwards.)

[icerose]

LOL, thanks Optimus, my brain didn't even register that.

[dpaterso]

Ach did ye think it was the Gaelic, lass? Ah didna mean to confuse ye. But yer nae Sherlock Holmes, an neither ye are. :)

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

[zagoraz]

"Ach did ye think it was the Gaelic, lass? Ah didna mean to confuse ye. But yer nae Sherlock Holmes, an neither ye are."


....I held that one up in front of a mirror and my brain exploded.

[Joe Calabrese]

Check out this free English to dialect translator.

http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/

Here is Scottish.

Loove an' hate? Ah hink everythin' feels better in anither dialect. thes is mah scottish traslation.

[scripter1]

I love everything I write but hate that few others seem to understand how brilliant I am. :D

[icerose]

It was a possibility lol. I am just used to being around my friend Razor from Scotland and he talks so much gibberish half the time, I took it as part of a dialect. Not to mention now that I am 8 months pregnant and my back hurts like crazy 99% of the time I am not sleeping worth anything at this point.
Sara


Ach did ye think it was the Gaelic, lass? Ah didna mean to confuse ye. But yer nae Sherlock Holmes, an neither ye are. :)

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

[scripter1]

:partyguy: :TheWave: :Cheer: :PartySmil :snoopy: :Clap:


Do you know what you are having?
What number is this one?

Where in Utah?

[icerose]

Number 3. Girl. Helper, its in the East by Price.

[scripter1]

for a month or so before moving to Ogden and then down to Provo to attend UVCC. Couldn't get into the Y.