Thank you, Malisky -- this sounds like a very good approach! I find it much easier / more satisfying to write a script than a treatment, but I've...
Thanks for the replies, everyone! This sounds like good advice. Since I started the rewrite process with the consultant, no one else has read my...
Thanks GrJs! Going with my gut, I think it's a combination of 1 and 3. At this point, I'm just anxious to get started writing the script. It's...
Years ago, I sent my script to a consultant. Like many (all?) newbie writers, it had major structural issues -- but, the consultant seemed very...
Thank you both! I was afraid that I'd written myself into my characters a little too much, in that they all shared this common theme which I...
I've found that all three of my main characters have something in common: they all had conflicts with their parents. Character 1's conflict...
Thanks everyone! Your perspectives have been very helpful and reassuring. I've read a little on the topic of violent crime, and in many areas it...
Violence is far from the only type of conflict, and yet so many stories depict it. Especially with movies, it's the rare breed that doesn't...
Thanks for clarifying, Tea@3! Indeed, it sounds like I still have some work ahead of me (no one ever said this was easy), but at least I'm on the...
Basically, I was told to iterate on the treatment, and not to flesh that into a script until the treatment was rock solid. This means all of my...
Tea@3's message is really all you need, but to echo a bit of that, I recall an interview with Gene Wilder where he said screenwriting was like...
I use a very iterative process. My early process is a lot like what others have mentioned -- but, putting those together, my story would always...
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