So I’ve been trying to post a quote a week on my Instagram channel. The one for this week was from Ray Bradbury.
“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.“
I’m not trying to be a novelist or short story author, so I’d replace short story with short screenplay or logline or something else, but it’s a good reminder near the beginning of the year to set aside time to write, write, write.
Writing a feature or a short script a week isn’t practical to fit around a fulltime job, but going forward, I’ll be posting a logline a week on my IG channel (and here).
I’m sure some of them will be bad but, as Bradbury says, it’s impossible they’ll all be bad. And it’s a good chance to practice idea generation — and doing this can’t help but improve my logline writing.
It’s a good discipline — and hopefully leads to refining and improving my writing craft. A good idea is the foundation of a script. If the foundation is lean and strong, the script should be better for it.
They’ll mostly be projects I haven’t written yet. For some posts, I may break down my decisions in the wording of the logline, or post different versions of the same idea to see how different word choices or phrasings impact the tone.