“From Boots to Broadway: How Army Veteran Ryan Smith Transformed His Life Into a Captivating Musical Journey”
Ashley
Gotcha, gotcha. So, let’s talk about just the writing of the script a little bit. What does your writing schedule look like? Are you someone that just writes in the morning, you go to Starbucks, you need ambient noise, you have a home office. Just give us a little, shed a little light on sort of what you do to write and what that looks like for you.
Ryan Smith
So, at the time when I wrote this one, again, I was very new to writing a feature-length script. So, it took me about six months to write it. And it was very haphazard. I would write a section. And then once I kind of hit a wall and didn’t know where to go next, I would take it to like three or four people and I would ask them questions like, how do you feel about this? Do you feel like anything’s missing? And it really morphed quite a bit over time. As far as environment, usually, I mean, I’m in my home office here. I would usually sit in my home office and just kind of sit with a cup of coffee and listen. At the time, I wouldn’t play any music or anything like that because I wouldn’t want to be distracted. I would spend time, I think I’ve got the book here, I’d be going through the Hollywood standard trying to make sure that I was putting it in the right format the whole time. I was very concerned with trying to make sure that I was putting it in a format that whenever other people read it, that it would seem right because it was very much a learning experience at the time. Now, since then, actually I’ve done NaNoWriMo a few times now. I’ve actually written two scripts so far where you just start writing and I just write three pages a day and at the end of a month, I’ve written a 90-page script and I just go through. I still very much do it chronologically. I just start at the beginning of the script and I just start writing straight through.
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