my biggest writing insecurity was trying to sound like a writer. no matter how hard i try, i know that i'll never be a great writer. that's disturbing in so many ways.
there is a talent to screenwriting, and it's not as much as being able to write, cause's it's really not, it's about being able to write cinematically which is not writing, it's like learning a language.
i hate the fact that i know plenty of guys on this board who are better writers than me and no matter how much i try, or how much i work at it there's a ceiling that i'll never get to, that level of prose that is not monologue, or dialogue as much as it's pov elaborated for six pages. that's writing. i'm angered that i can't do that.
BUT
screenwriting is about characters and the spoken word and the ability of a person to assimilate, rationalize, manipulate scenarios in character. i'm great at that.
so, it boils me that i can't write; and i can't. but it makes me happy that i can at least bullshaite my way through a script.
when i started writing on my own, just vig, i had to take into account what i'm good and do that. so, it turned out that all the flowery stuff was impossible for me to pull off.
some of the scripts i read have two elements to them. the prose was telling a story within the story and then the characters spoke and that was good as well. .
i was always worried that, that part of the story (prose) had to be as good as the story, and that was main goal - when i first started writing my objective was to 'sound like a writer' the story was just after thought hinded in my attempt to sound like a writer.
but when i realized that you only have to create the world of the story, you don't need to be a great writer, per say.
so, that's why i'm empowered, that's why vig, is vig cause stories are the lifeblood of a story teller and have them - so i really don't consider myself a writer.
i'm not a writer. i'm a storyteller. haskins is a writer. my buddy esdavis is a writer. ere is a writer. whiskey, shuster, even dclary.
dclary pissed me off when he said i can't write. hell, i can't write, but i can do is tell a story. i kind of like the fact that i'm happy with knowing what i know about my liabilities.
anyone else like to purge? don't be fearful, your enemies will use your weakness against you and that's just how it's gonna be.
vig
there is a talent to screenwriting, and it's not as much as being able to write, cause's it's really not, it's about being able to write cinematically which is not writing, it's like learning a language.
i hate the fact that i know plenty of guys on this board who are better writers than me and no matter how much i try, or how much i work at it there's a ceiling that i'll never get to, that level of prose that is not monologue, or dialogue as much as it's pov elaborated for six pages. that's writing. i'm angered that i can't do that.
BUT
screenwriting is about characters and the spoken word and the ability of a person to assimilate, rationalize, manipulate scenarios in character. i'm great at that.
so, it boils me that i can't write; and i can't. but it makes me happy that i can at least bullshaite my way through a script.
when i started writing on my own, just vig, i had to take into account what i'm good and do that. so, it turned out that all the flowery stuff was impossible for me to pull off.
some of the scripts i read have two elements to them. the prose was telling a story within the story and then the characters spoke and that was good as well. .
i was always worried that, that part of the story (prose) had to be as good as the story, and that was main goal - when i first started writing my objective was to 'sound like a writer' the story was just after thought hinded in my attempt to sound like a writer.
but when i realized that you only have to create the world of the story, you don't need to be a great writer, per say.
so, that's why i'm empowered, that's why vig, is vig cause stories are the lifeblood of a story teller and have them - so i really don't consider myself a writer.
i'm not a writer. i'm a storyteller. haskins is a writer. my buddy esdavis is a writer. ere is a writer. whiskey, shuster, even dclary.
dclary pissed me off when he said i can't write. hell, i can't write, but i can do is tell a story. i kind of like the fact that i'm happy with knowing what i know about my liabilities.
anyone else like to purge? don't be fearful, your enemies will use your weakness against you and that's just how it's gonna be.
vig
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