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The Writing Headspace

Page history last edited by Steve 3 years, 2 months ago

This is a collection of direct quotes, culled from the last 3 years of my script-writing diary. At the moment, I've arranged it into sections and left it. Once I've finished doing this for every section of my script-writing process, I'll come back and refine these notes. What I want to create are a list of general principles, common problems and their solutions, and examples of how I write. It's all stuff that will (hopefully) give me a leg up on the next script I write.

 

The sections in this post are:

 

-- Gaining Motivation

-- Procrastination (assign 'Other Stuff', do second draft)

-- Making Progress

-- Relaxing

-- Rewards

-- Dealing with Distractions

 

 

AS-YET-UNASSIGNED OBSERVATIONS

 

I get sucked into the emotion I'm writing about. (This can be a good way of processing and understanding feelings.)

 

 

For the first time with the Limit, I'm not that sure what edits I'd like to make to it. I've had that feeling before - with other scripts - and it's usually indicated that further tinkering tips the story over the edge and starts to break it.

 

Two Saturdays ago - I finally read through the script myself. My emotions went through two phases:

  • 1) the actual reading, where I thought that the script was terrible. Unrealistic, badly motivated, lame writing. It totally didn't live up to the ideal in my head and I was pretty much devastated by the end;

I took a week off, where I couldn't face reading or thinking about the thing. I drew some solace from a book on script-editing where another writer was described as adopting the fetal position for two days, curled up in bed with a hot water bottle. I was not that bad.

 

 

 

 

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