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 I made my first meme. I can't tell if that makes me totally cool or uncool. And I don't know if I picked the best picture. There were so many to choose from, I just ... [exploding head] ...
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Writing a screenplay for me is like juggling. It’s like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point and then they’ll crystallise into a pattern. It sometimes takes me three or four days to get into a head space where I can do that and if I get interrupted at any point I have to start over. So I couldn’t be one of these staff writers who hangs out, does a long lunch, goes back, and writes six pages in the afternoon. I feel ya, James Cameron. All the way. To a T.
Unless your hero is a sociopath, characters have to face tough questions and come to a realization that causes change. I would argue that even sociopaths must do this. I mean, look at Dexter - his life was one long shit storm of tough questions. The most important change is not necessarily in the character, but in the audience.
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. Unless I tell myself this in order to let myself off the hook and not try my damnedest...
I want to write 'heartbreaking work of staggering genius' - whatever that means to me. Whether or not the world considers my work 'heartbreaking' and of 'staggering genius' is essentially beyond my control. |
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