The SoCreate Weekly Museletter
Fresh Screenwriting Insights, Challenges, and More!
Hello SoCreators,
Welcome back to the SoCreate Weekly Museletter, your go-to source for screenwriting wisdom, SoCreate tool highlights, engaging challenges, and up-to-the-minute SoCreate updates. Every week, we'll deliver the cream of the crop from the writing community straight to your inbox, providing you with the resources and inspiration to keep your creativity at its peak.
Exploring This Week’s Featured Blogs
Deciphering Screenplay Title Pages: Screenplay title pages might seem straightforward, but there's more to them than meets the eye. Discover how to create an impactful title page, complete with examples and key considerations. (P.S.: SoCreate creates a screenplay title page for you for every story, so if you’re a SoCreate member, you can skip this blog post!) Find out more here.
Creating Unforgettable Narrative Podcasts: A well-crafted narrative podcast can grip audiences like no other medium. In this blog, we explore three vital skills to master for producing an unforgettable narrative podcast from expert podcast producer Jeffrey C. Graham. Dive deeper here.
Anatomy of Film Treatments: Film treatments offer a blueprint for your script and can be crucial in pitching your story. We've collected film treatment examples to help you better understand and create your own. Learn how to craft your treatment here.
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SoCreate Feature Highlight: Adding Action in SoCreate
Using traditional screenwriting software, you might add action to describe a car chase, a scene description, or simply what your character is doing in between dialogue. The action description is just a line or two of text, existing in black and white on the page.
In SoCreate, you’d use the Action Stream Item to add things like action, location, and character description.
SoCreate automatically formats Action Stream Items upon exporting your script to the traditional screenplay format. So, things like scene description and action description appear exactly where you’d expect them to in your industry-standard script.
Why is SoCreate’s Action Stream Item better?
All SoCreate’s stream items, including Action, can be easily moved around within your Story Stream. So, if you decide that you want a character to high-five another character before their dialogue instead of after, just drag and drop the Action Stream Item to wherever you see fit. Need to move a car chase to another scene entirely? Just drag and drop.
SoCreate automatically reformats your script, so you don’t have to deal with a jumbled mess of text whenever you try to move something, allowing you to effortlessly try new things!
Action Stream Items are also easily recognizable within your Story Stream. Instead of scanning through black-and-white text, you can quickly discern action by looking for the running stick figure to the left of your text.
SoCreate Weekly Writing Challenge
Are you ready to put your skills to the test with our Weekly Writing Challenge? This week's fantasy prompt challenges you to create a mystery character and give voice to an anthropomorphic animal. What will you dream up?
Location: EXT - Queen’s Enchanted Forest - Dawn
Characters: Princess Blessing; Spirit
Scene description: Princess Blessing opens her eyes. Her face is down in the dirt. She sees her trusty horse Spirit tied up to a tree through blurry vision. She pushes herself off the ground and realizes where she is: the Queen’s Enchanted Forest.
Prompt: Princess Blessing sees someone is asleep on Spirit’s back. She asks Spirit who it is, and to her surprise, Spirit responds! How does the conversation ensue?
We're delighted to accompany you on your screenwriting journey. Always remember, creativity isn't a one-way street—it's a thrilling adventure of discovery, expression, setbacks, successes, and, most of all – joy. Keep at it!
Happy writing,
<3 Your friends at SoCreate
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