Planet Snart

[Ralph Snart]

In this episode Ralph the diabolical has been surfing the web looking for funding to support his latest psychological abnormality.
Funding for the arts . no problem there I just have to scrape up a Phd.
So Doctor Ralph now needs an engine to perpetrait this not fraud.
crime is boring.
A blinding 80proof haze produces an aincent memory.
Fractile Theater.
computers and shakespear.
Dozens of employees thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
This guy does it all the time out of san fransisco he has a website and was on a science show about four years ago.
Now Writing for this type of enviornment could be tricky.
However I have the perfect script.
script go THUMP!
I didn't write it; the author is dead for many years
but I am going to be responsible for editing it and want to respect the authors concept but other elements are going to have to be introduced to make it flow.
Any thoughts on this trick subject because I would like to use every word of it but it just isn't practical from a flow standpoint.

[twister!]

It sounds obvious but have you tried looking at any screenwriting books (Syd Field is probably the best)?

[Ralph Snart]

Not recently but yes I have and thank you.
The problem is It could start and or end on every page. Even the typos are solid gold.
This is a 16 year old girl in rural noplace in 1930 or so writing empathetically about killing chickens for christmas dinner.
and lightning endangering infants.
I never met the author so I have no idea of perspective.
Comments..

[twister!]

It sounds great. Write it from your perspective based on your own reaction to what you read. The hardest part is probably starting - but once you do it will start to flow. A good bit of advice I read was from William Goldman who said - if you have an idea in your head but you're not exactly sure what to write just put anything down - at least then you have someting to change.

Just retain the bits which best convey the ideas.

If it's too much for one screenplay why not write more than one...?

[Elmo Cat]

Thanks