Thanks Writer's Bootcamp!

So for the past 6 or 8 weeks, depending on how you count it, I've been working on a feature script as part of the course curriculum.  I'd taken screenwriting classes in college and high school, but I'm always looking to improve my writing, since that's where a project first takes shape as something potentially good or bad.  I was pondering whether or not to take the class, but a couple of reccomendations sealed the deal.

Turns out, it was well worth the investment!  I heard a lot of stuff I'd heard before, such as 3 act structure, protagonist, and so on.  But they also gave me an arsenal of new tools to write with.  While I wasn't able to write for the 10 hours a week they prescribed us, I did learn to schedule my writing time much better and write quicker then I ever have.  Normally I think writing quicker means sacrificing quality, but since I spent 80% of the process with the new tools before I even began writing pages, once I actually opened Final Draft the screenplay flowed out like water.  And I was incorporating the minute story and scene details I had already spent so much time on with those tools.

I know this sounds a lot like an ad for them, and they're not paying me anything to write this up, but I have to honestly look back and say, "Wow, that was a good class."  With these new tools I enjoy writing even more, and now I can use them on short form content, like in Hyperdrive Pictures!  Hopefully I'll be able to take the more 'advanced' (and unfortunately more expensive) classes soon to work on how to best rewrite drafts of a script.  Anyways, fun times writing and it's cool to say I've got another feature under my belt!