What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.