@wion
I see, thank you. 🙂 Yes those are indeed what I meant by the basic levels of tools and mechanics.

If you are going to hire actors and a director, it will certainly help to use industry standard formats, all of which are built into a standard screenplay, and all of which are indeed the same regardless of genre. There are even many software tools available nowadays to help you produce those.

Well that was interesting. I’ve just completed a short introductory course to screenwriting. And it was useful despite my not having any intent to take it further, at least not at the moment.

The sparseness of the product and the discipline of the process were eye opening. And being part of a team. Knowing that the director and actors are your immediate audience, so not telling them how to do their jobs but stimulating their vision and leaving lots of space for their interpretation.

Worth it.

I should post more here. Maybe. I do post elsewhere, on another instance, quite a lot. Perhaps I’ve seen this instance as quieter and more work related, and I’m a notorious slacker.

But I haven’t been slacking. I threw out all my old work in May. I now write every day: poems and prose vignettes. I’ve been doing literary study courses, which I’ve found immensely useful, even dabbling in screenwriting (just to see). And writing for an art group, publishing in a virtual world.

So I’ll be here. 📝