Write That Script! will steer you through the stormy seas from wanting to write a script to having your first one down on the page or screen. Write That Script! brings together all the theory you need, examples of how the theory works and challenging exercises to oil those writing muscles that will see you through to the end. Screenwriting is a tight and demanding medium but it is also one of the most exciting forms in which to write.
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Next week: ‘write it now’ – the world of macro writing structure more sixty second writing tips, funny science geekery, and more.You want to write a script but aren't sure where to start? You have a story in you that would be fantastic on the screen? After working as a screenwriter and screenwriting tutor for over two decades, I have written this book to help you to turn your ideas into screenplays, moving from an examination of what you need in terms of an idea that will work on screen all the way through to first draft. That, too, will get more structurally formed – on the fly – as your experience grows. Create the macro-sized structure – in effect, the framework. My take is that ‘pantsing’ is an essential part of writing – any writing – but it doesn’t reduce the need for proper structure. In other words, he pretty much had the plan of his book in mind all along, and stuck to it. And if you read Asimov’s stuff, it’s structurally all spot on. What they were actually doing was pretty much the musicians’ method – the structure is actually there, they’re simply improvising around it, without leaving the tried-and-true form.Īsimov himself said so in as many words – he always knew the end point – where everything was going. Look at Isaac Asimov, for instance, who wrote his novels essentially full-formed in Draft 1.
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So how do published writers do it? Many do – and did – write by apparent ‘pantsing’. And a novel written by pure ‘pantsing’ – free-form writing and seeing what happens – almost certainly will not have that necessary structure. Why? Because a book – any book, but especially a novel – must have certain structural elements before it is publishable. The thing is, material produced this way is NOT likely to be usable in a published book.
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To me, that risks sliding into the abyss of ‘writing as personal entertainment’, if we’re not careful – people writing as a pastime because it’s more fun than watching TV or playing Sim City. Aimlessness is the big one – ‘pantsing’ without knowing where the story, character, argument or whatever is going. It has a freshness of expression you can’t get any other way – and which can also be lost, if you’re not careful, by repeated revisions.īut it also carries huge pitfalls. To me, ‘seat of the pants’ writing – ‘pantsing’ – as it is called, has huge advantages, because it lets the mind wander creatively.
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Or they’ll be working inside a known structure (let’s say, 12-bar blues) which, by nature, gives form. Experienced musicians can improvise – they know what’s needed to create structure on the fly.
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The improvised song is, of course, horrible – and deliberately so. There is a wonderful scene in This Is Spinal Tap, the ‘mockumentary’ about the world’s loudest heavy metal band, where they end up performing ‘free form jazz’ at a zoo.