...but I didn`t know where 2 begin

how about getting a job?

How about starting at the beginning!!

Oh yeah, this belongs in General Discussion, too. Just sayin'.

This morning I wanted a cup of coffee but I didn't have any cream.

Moving to GD, it might help

Yesterday I tried 2 write a novel but I didn`t know where 2 begin
So I laid down in the grass tryin` 2 feel the world turn
Boy loses girl in a rain storm, nuclear World War III
All that`s left is pain and sorrow, as far as he`s concerned

CHORUS:
He says please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
I`m lookin` 4 a better place 2 die

Maybe he`s lookin` 4 a different world
Maybe he`s lookin` 4 a brand new high
Maybe he would like a nice condo overlookin` the rings of Saturn
Maybe he wants affection instead of a plastic life
Maybe he doesn`t know what he wants at all

CHORUS

A newborn child knows nothing of destruction
Nothing of love and hate
What happens in between is a mystery
Because we don`t give a damn about his fate

He said he`ll never keep diaries 2 learn from his mistakes
Instead he`ll just repeat all the good things that he`s done
Fight 4 perfect love until it`s perfect love he makes
When he`s happy then his battle will be won (It`s never 2 late)

Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Send your.. send 2 me)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Send your levels 2 me)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Sending me your.. send 2 me)
I`m lookin` 4 a better place 2 die (Better place 2 die)

Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me (Oh yeah!)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me {x2}
He don`t, he don`t, he don`t really wanna die
He don`t wanna, he don`t wanna, he don`t wanna die {x2}
He don`t really wanna die
[Edited 11/5/09 17:38pm]

Inspiration strikes you when you least expect it.

I've had a story bouncing around in my head or the past FIVE YEARS. I have maybe 2 chapters written and a rough outline. Sometimes I sit in front of the computer, determined to write my story, but wind up writing and re-writing the same sentence over & over. THEN I'll be at work and busy with a million things that have to get done before 5:00 and BAM-! the only thing I can concentrate on is my story.



...if nothing else works, start with; "It was a dark and stormy night...."

PurpleJedi said:

"Two men were sitting in a graveyard...."

I wrote 270 pages in five weeks when I wrote my first book last year.

ernestsewell said:

Well, I wrote 5 pages in 270 days!

PurpleJedi said:

I've written nothing in 14,050 days!

ZombieKitten said:

PurpleJedi said:

nothing very useful anyway

TheNewWatcher2 said:

Sooooo....
is there a reworked Moonbeam levels in the making?

If this really is about a novel, try writing about what you know - instead of what you think you know, be honest now....

"It was a dark and stormy night" always seemed to work for Snoopy!

I'm gonna start one tomorrow.

TheNewWatcher2 said:

I'm like that with scripts inwrite for finbut I give up after a while. You know what's annoying...

4 years ago I started a Batman script...it started with a masked group robbing a bank and one removes his mask to reveal the joker = The Dark Knoght

2 years ago started a Transformers script where they had been here millions of years, shaping early humanity = revenge of the fallen.

If u want a tip...start in the middle of something instead of building up to something, it makes it easier to kick off.

"The blade flashed on themob lightcas it sliced effortlessly..."

" "what was that?" asked Chester the Badger"

I wish I had a collection of everything I've written here. It could probably fill a book.

Has anyone compiled all of my quotes, by any chance?

purpledoveuk said:

OMG! I'm just like that with music. I have tons of unfinished demos and I've heard so many of "my" songs over the years that it puts me off ever completing them. I mean, what's the point? Nobody would ever believe that I wrote Amy Winehouse's 'Rehab' first. It's completely annoying.

purpledoveuk said:

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NDRU said:

ernestsewell said:

And if i say do my Transformers script was miles better than revenge - it 'explained' the extinction of dinosaurs, 'biblical' events? Religious theories...had Autobots and Decepts teaming up to fight common threat from one man who had unearthed one of the original transformers (similar again!!!), double crossing, international terrorism, corruption - it had it all...I'm sure this will be the premise for Transformers 3!!!

REMEMBER THIS WHEN I SUE MICHAEL BAY!!!!

purpledoveuk said:

I'm debating between writing two things: a screenplay based on a video game (that I'm pretty sure no one on the Org knows, but I'm still not naming it). I think it'd make a great and fun Pixar film, although the claymation in Wallace & Gromit might work too. I don't see it being any sort of live action, just based on the characters in it, or

A novel based on a play a friend and I wrote back in 1992. It's a comedy about a father/son conflict over what to do when the kid graduates high school. It's a bit of a coming of age story (and "Coming of Age" was the original title). I think it'd make for a very funny book. I think it'd be easier to write first, rather than working from scratch on the video game movie.

TheNewWatcher2 said:

If you're not a fan then what are you?

ernestsewell said:

Sonic the Hedghog eh?!

also wrote half a indiann jones style script with a Maguffin that gave the holder ultimate knowledge....Crystal Skull anyone.

Sounds weird but, although I used to write novel style stories a few years back, I found screenplays more exciting to put together....and I can't rember how to write the old way now.
[Edited 11/7/09 1:45am]

Once upon a time
Always works well

TheNewWatcher2 said:

So I laid down in the grass tryin' 2 feel the world turn
Boy loses girl in a rain storm, nuclear World War III
All that's left is pain and sorrow, as far as he's concerned



If price wrote a novel,,
it would include all of the moments of when he felt the world turn
how the rain touched his face
The first time he fell in love
in lust
in love with god
i wished that it would include a collage of all of the things he ever wanted or feared..
if u pieced all of Prince's song 2gether, you would get just that.. a beautiful novel of such...everybody wants a story..but they dont want 2 listen..
After all..we are ALL looking 4 a better place 2 die



He said he'll never keep diaries 2 learn from his mistakes
Instead he'll just repeat all the good things that he's done
Fight 4 perfect love until it's perfect love he makes
When he's happy then his battle will be won

Please send all ur fammy-fams back 2 Music&More...

Please send all ur fammy-fams back 2 Music&More...

Please send all ur fammy-fams back 2 Music&More...

'm lookin 4 a better place 2 MulletPoodle

PunkMistress said:

PunkMistress said: