Imrpovise.

You start out with an idea, you transform the idea in your head, the more you think about it the more ideas you get, the more ideas you get the more the story expands. You do this until you know alll the characters, the conflict between them, and what needs to be resolved in the end. Then you find a meaning to all of it. Don't bother to write any of this down, you will just throw it away. Now, after about a month of thinking, you start writing it down, scene for scene, line for line, improvising everything from what you've gathered over the ideas in your head. You lock yourself in a small room, you wait until it starts raining, you turn on some music for the tone, then you don't stop until everything works and everything is finished.

Finished Broken Home

Broken Home-Thriller, Drama

I wrote the original outline before christmas on my blog here. It was pretty weak but after a few ffp classes I made it into something interesting and dynamic. Suprisingly I stayed with the same theme and story style and archs, and throughout each rewrite of the outline I realized how malleable the plot was due to the strong chracters and sticking to the same themes and genre.

Now I just finished it today :3, I'm doing a full read through right now before sending it into Katt for the ffp class. I'm gonna post some of the crazy shit to be expected from it.

-Car accident, wife is practically dead infront of our protagonist Frank right in front of him, he can't do anything about it.
-Shelby get's punched/knocked out by the antagonis(Vincent) which starts the 2nd act.
-Mick gets a pen in his arm.
-A dog gets impaled by a broken hockey stick offscreen for barking too much.
-Heather(The youngest, 11 years old) gets beaten up by Vincent off screen while the entire family hears it and can't do a damn thing about it.
-Mick gets his ass thrown out a window during one hell of a beating.
-Frank gets stabbed and left with an Unconcious Heather in a now burning house.
-Shay gets hit, followed by Mick baseball swinging a firepoker into the side of Vincent's head. He doesn't die of course.
-Shelby saves Frank by throwing him off the roof right before the hous eis completely engulfed in flames.
-Shay nearly falls through the floor of the second level of the barn, below is an old rusted spike harrow(Evil piece of machinery with lots of spikes and such. She escapes in a Indiana Jones-esque style.
-Epic fight on third level of Barn with Mick, Shay and Vincent, Vincent nearly gets hanged but falls down onto the Harrows.

I rewrote the third act because a lot of it lacked the action essential to make a good thriller. I think the new third act works a lot better. I tried to get everything in there, focus objects, ticking clocks, progressive complications, breathing room(To a degree), and some reality to all of it.

To make a Film, Or to not make a film

I'm moving back to grande Prairie the day after I graduate. My reasoning, free rent, free food, I miss my cat, and while basking in free rent and food I can concentrate on saving money and paying off my credit card, grandpa and start on paying off my schooling. I'm praying to god that I can get a decent paying full time job within the week I get back. This means i'm gonna have to dedicate myself to searching in a city that is in a bit of a job slump... But anyways, if the job thing works out then I'll be straight working all summer. Except for Warped tour, which will be placed in md august in Edmonton. I'll probably stay 2-3 days extra to enjoy E-Town and hang out with ol Gregolas.

So anyways, once September comes I've decided to make a plan for the year of 2011. Now here is my idea
1.-Stay in Grande Prairie, Rustle some friends together and work on a feature film that I have laid out over the winter. While doing so i'll work part time and try and master the art of directing with the help of some established friends.(I'm also considering Acting in this feature idea..)
2.Move back to Vancouver and get a 1 bedroom apartment or basement suite. Work full time in an industry that I find fitting(I really wanna get into the Courier business. I would also settle for anything relating to movies.) I would be writting scripts and work on my directing abilities. Get a cat and gather a savings that will go towards a possible quest to L.A once the time and funds come together.
3. Start doing crack after failing as a writer. Manage to make a business out of crack. Sell it, make it... End up getting arrested or raped by coke dealers who claim the city as their turf.
4.Move to Banff and become a lift jockey.
5.Consider becoming a travelling graffiti artist living off gambling winnings.
6.Sell a kidney in order to merry a woman to impress her father so I could get a job at his factory...

Prime Land

Prime Land-A modern day setting placed within a classic western story.
A sadistic gambling rancher who just so happens to own a retarded amount of land on the edge of the farmland of northern canada wants the last available piece of land. Which belongs to A young man who looks way too sophisticated to be a farmer, but he is, and he owns the best known land in the district, and one of the biggest lots. The rancher offers a large sum of land for the land, one that would make most farmers cry. But the farmer says he will never sell the land. 15 years ago this farm used to be a ranch and it used to be all trees. But one day during a storm the forst started on fire. In a desperate effort to save the cattle that grazed in the forest the owner of the farm(The farmer in the rest of the story) tried to save them and also save some of his equipment. Unfortunatly he died during the fire and most of his cattle died aswell. The farmers dad left the farm to his son, who was a year away from becoming a doctor and recently became a father and a husband. The farm has been within his family for the last 150 years. Despite pressure from his wife, the farmer decided to maintain the farm. The wife stayed by his side because he loved him. But after 5 years of the farmer trying to transform the forest that burnt to the ground into a prime plot of farmland the wife became annoyed with the lifestyle and divorced him. The farmer nearly quit, but he stuck with it. This land belongs to the family and it will always belong to the family. So back to modern day. The farmer begins to find signs of sabotage to his farm. He thinks very little of it until his tractor catches on fire. He immeditly gets police involved to investigate the rancher but the rancher has no signs of involvement. The farmer knew it was him so he attacks back and releases a massive amount of cattle which causes an accident. The rancher is sued and tries to trace it back to the farmer but he made it look like the cows caused the whole escape. The farmer get's a restraining order put on the Rancher. But to do so he meets back with his wife who studied law. his wife sees what he's doing and tells him to stop. The farmer brings her to the land and again she pursaudes him to sell the land and do what he was meant to do. Even if the land has been in the family for such a long time doesn't mean it has to continue being that way. Tradition must end, and normally a fire should end it. The farmer offers to think about it. They eventually reconsile there differences and the next morning the farmer goes to sign the papers to hand over the farm but on the way the Rancher plotted to destroy the land, which iis actually revealed by one of the cronnies of the rancher to be the second time he has done this(He started the fire which killed the father.) The cronnie denies doing it. so the rancher does it himself. The farmer sees this and doesn't bother to try and save the farm, instead he runs with his wife. They get away, the farm is destroyed. The cronnie rats out the rancher. And the Farmer moves away...