Hello. I'm new to the group so let me first say my name's Tim. I've
been writing for about 3 1/2 years now. Yet to finish one but
they're getting better.

A couple of questions.

First, about changing scenes. I have a couple of scenes in an
apartment where the characters are going from the living room to the
bathroom, bedroom and so forth. I don't want to create a new scene
heading so I've been doing it like this example.

INT. APARTMENT -- DAY

He gets up off the couch and goes into the

BATHROOM [in bold]

where he takes his medications.

He then goes back into the

LIVING ROOM [in bold]

and sees her standing at the doorway.

FADE OUT.

I shortened it just to demonstrate but I'm curious as if this is
acceptable when it comes time to submit or am I going to have to
create new scenese for each room. In the script, it is essential to
have the different rooms in there. There's a lot of moving around
back and forth and such. Does that make sense?

The other thing, I built about ten pages demonstrating the strong,
loving relationship of this couple. The thing is, the main character
is suicidal and I really need to demonstrate that within the first
act. Is this a suicidal move on my part? I know throughout the
second act I can overcome this. But, it doesn't do my any good if
the person reading (agent/producer, whoever) doesn't like the
character well enough to continue reading.

Usually I can find my answers in books or through a writing class but
this seems to be absent of anyone's "honest guess". Thanks to anyone
who can help.

cul8r
tim