UCLA

So I've just enrolled in a screenwriting class at UCLA
which means I've now been a graduate student, both under and post, in four different countries now.

My cousin tells me the UCLA sports team are called the Bruins so I must go and study up on them :)

Obligatory Eureka post

Yes!
My new method worked.
I've plotted out my screenplay.

Three more screenplays to go.
Oh, and a novel.

Screenplay writing

I've learned in the past weeks that I am unable to write a screenplay without first writing the story down as a short story.

Better late than never.

In a way it feels like a waste of time but given how much time and effort I would otherwise waste on coming up with stilted storylines before scrapping them, it really probably isn't.

I wonder if the same would work with the novel.

Right now I'm working on about 4 screenplays; first writing them as short stories. When that's done I will do the same for the novel and hope it inspires the rewrite.