Re: How important is voice in screenwriting?
Oh my.
Centos, I took nothing out of context. Did you, or did you not say writers who follow the Guru’s DO NOT’s list by the “letter of the law" -– "results in stilted, horribly mangled writing”?
I took offense to this statement. Why? Look at my opening page of my script in post #56. You’ll notice that you won’t find one “we see,” adverb, camera angle, present progressive tense form, etc. There are verbals, but this isn’t on a Guru’s DO NOT’s list. I do not believe my writing would be considered “stilted, horribly mangled writing.”
Am I following a Guru’s DO NOT’s list purposely? No, this is just how I write and just like Jeff presented scripts that advanced in screenwriting contests that do use elements on a Guru’s DO NOT’s list, my scripts that don’t use elements, well, very rarely, on a Guru’s DO NOT’s list have all advanced in a screenwriting contest.
Centos, you say, “…we pretty agreed that the ‘never dos’ were basically good advice when not taken to the extreme.” Also, you say it’s use is okay in “moderation.” This is not the point I’ve been trying to get across to you.
My point is if a writer wishes to use the Guru’s DO NOT’s list -- to the extreme -- it’s okay. It’s their personal taste and style and if they are truly a writer, then their work isn’t going to be “stilted, horribly mangled writing,” which I’ve demonstrated with my opening page of a script that I’m working on and the fact that my scripts have advanced in contests against 4,000 and more of my peers.
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Centos, I took nothing out of context. Did you, or did you not say writers who follow the Guru’s DO NOT’s list by the “letter of the law" -– "results in stilted, horribly mangled writing”?
I took offense to this statement. Why? Look at my opening page of my script in post #56. You’ll notice that you won’t find one “we see,” adverb, camera angle, present progressive tense form, etc. There are verbals, but this isn’t on a Guru’s DO NOT’s list. I do not believe my writing would be considered “stilted, horribly mangled writing.”
Am I following a Guru’s DO NOT’s list purposely? No, this is just how I write and just like Jeff presented scripts that advanced in screenwriting contests that do use elements on a Guru’s DO NOT’s list, my scripts that don’t use elements, well, very rarely, on a Guru’s DO NOT’s list have all advanced in a screenwriting contest.
Centos, you say, “…we pretty agreed that the ‘never dos’ were basically good advice when not taken to the extreme.” Also, you say it’s use is okay in “moderation.” This is not the point I’ve been trying to get across to you.
My point is if a writer wishes to use the Guru’s DO NOT’s list -- to the extreme -- it’s okay. It’s their personal taste and style and if they are truly a writer, then their work isn’t going to be “stilted, horribly mangled writing,” which I’ve demonstrated with my opening page of a script that I’m working on and the fact that my scripts have advanced in contests against 4,000 and more of my peers.
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