Re: Originality vs Unoriginality
I belong to this online community (non-writing) that has well over 100K members and one day this young dude started this thread, that out of it emerged this crazy "what if" that basically started a firestorm and well over 5K "my mind is blown" responses/comments.
I started writing and 108 pages later I wrote a script that really wrote itself. That "what if" I reduced to a hook that occurs within the first 10. The hook is totally original (I've never heard/seen the notion fully expressed verbally or in writing, let alone in a film) but the story I built around it is well, very unoriginal/nothing new.
It's hard to be original in basic storytelling but we can introduce elements that are original and fresh.
My hope lies in the execution of the unoriginal and the introduction of what I believe to be something very original.
I belong to this online community (non-writing) that has well over 100K members and one day this young dude started this thread, that out of it emerged this crazy "what if" that basically started a firestorm and well over 5K "my mind is blown" responses/comments.
I started writing and 108 pages later I wrote a script that really wrote itself. That "what if" I reduced to a hook that occurs within the first 10. The hook is totally original (I've never heard/seen the notion fully expressed verbally or in writing, let alone in a film) but the story I built around it is well, very unoriginal/nothing new.
It's hard to be original in basic storytelling but we can introduce elements that are original and fresh.
My hope lies in the execution of the unoriginal and the introduction of what I believe to be something very original.
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