Re: What do you think is more important: story, or quality of writing?
This is my what I find so frustrating about this forum (remember the "angle on" thread?). For years the screenwriting landscape has been obscured by myth and uncertainty, with thread after thread discussing the various ideaologies in perpetuity. Then we get DD and real life pros lifting up the curtain and showing us how it really works. Hallelujah!
Yet the same people, looking for answers and a way out of the Maze of Uncertainty continue their endless threads and "ah, but..." replies, meandering round and round the maze. It's as if they don't want the definitive answers they claim to seek; that they get off on fogging things up rather than clearing the mist; that they rather focus on irrelevancies (including honorable mentions for page length, big budget vs low budget, and "we see") rather than the deeper, more nuanced qualities of screenwriting - the shit that actually elevates your writing!
Three pros have spoken and all sang from the same hymn sheet yet there are still those on the outside looking in, disregarding (even arguing). And their response to this will be "ah, but that's just 3 writers. Who's to say another 3 wouldn't disagree?". Are they just so accustomed to a lack of direction from anyone in the know? Are they just scared that straight answers gives them nowhere to hide when their work never makes the grade? My money's on the latter.
Originally posted by nmstevens
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Yet the same people, looking for answers and a way out of the Maze of Uncertainty continue their endless threads and "ah, but..." replies, meandering round and round the maze. It's as if they don't want the definitive answers they claim to seek; that they get off on fogging things up rather than clearing the mist; that they rather focus on irrelevancies (including honorable mentions for page length, big budget vs low budget, and "we see") rather than the deeper, more nuanced qualities of screenwriting - the shit that actually elevates your writing!
Three pros have spoken and all sang from the same hymn sheet yet there are still those on the outside looking in, disregarding (even arguing). And their response to this will be "ah, but that's just 3 writers. Who's to say another 3 wouldn't disagree?". Are they just so accustomed to a lack of direction from anyone in the know? Are they just scared that straight answers gives them nowhere to hide when their work never makes the grade? My money's on the latter.
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