Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.
Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.
I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do.
I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.
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