Re: Bring yourself to your scripts
Once when the late, great MoviePoet still existed, I wrote a short script with Texas accents. I really worked on the dialogue and even though it was comedy and dialogue was pretty colorful, I thought I had it down.
Some ("damn Yankee") told me I writing stereotypes and ought to be ashamed of myself. It made me feel kind of bad.
Then a lifelong Texan and professional writer said I nailed the accents. He said I walked a tightrope and didn't go too far. And said that was hard to do. Which made me feel better.
I've been writing dialogue since I was five or six (my Dad's a writer) so I guess I'm kind of sensitive about that.
Once when the late, great MoviePoet still existed, I wrote a short script with Texas accents. I really worked on the dialogue and even though it was comedy and dialogue was pretty colorful, I thought I had it down.
Some ("damn Yankee") told me I writing stereotypes and ought to be ashamed of myself. It made me feel kind of bad.
Then a lifelong Texan and professional writer said I nailed the accents. He said I walked a tightrope and didn't go too far. And said that was hard to do. Which made me feel better.
I've been writing dialogue since I was five or six (my Dad's a writer) so I guess I'm kind of sensitive about that.
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