Originally posted by Bono
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I struggled with how I opened my future-set script. The first instinct -- describing Brooklyn NY 60 years into the future, flooded by global warming -- was to start macro with sweeping views.
It was just too much. Too much to read. Too much to write. I was getting lost in the prose confusing myself.
Then I tried it by starting super micro. Close on a tattoo gun finishing a tat. Then pull back. Show enough to communicate the future. Then intro character. Short dialogue. Then protag goes outside. Describe flooded street. Then intro another main character with more touches of "world" description. And so on and so on.
Essentially I described the physical world over the first 10 pages in between character, dialogue and plot. But I must have polished those 10 pages a couple hundred times to describe just enough without falling into too much.
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