Les Borean's Lounge Discussions

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I always just do a writing sprint and write whatever comes to mind so I can try to push through it.

Allison Caldwell You bet!

If you don't want to work on one piece of writing, work on one that is strictly for fun: Write a thoughtful email to your Grandma. Make a list of former lovers. Copy out your favorite song lyrics. Sometimes it's better to outflank the writing before it can mess with your head

Travis Seppala That's a great way of looking at it too. It might just come off as an excuse to avoid writing your story or whatever else you have going on.

Glad to be a new follower! Agreed. As screenwriters we need constant self-check.

Welcome, Les. Nice to meet you. You're right about constant self-checks.

In my view, the most important thing is totality of a script, which the author has to keep in her/his eye, that is a combination of genre beats, dialogs, characters etc. So, the author is a conductor controlling and improving the dark/shrill/strident tone of each instrument. - But nowadays, there are much more screenwriters than readers. The probability to hit the jackpot in Minesota Lottery is much, much higher than earn a big money in the industry. What the screenwriters have to do, then? They should mimic transformers and transform themselve into the racehorses galoping for surprise, suspense, and Oscar.

100% agree. My short script as an example has hit 15/16 edits. There’s always something to tighten, neaten or sharpen.

I’m doing it now on my feature script.

Hello, Mark, writing is, in essence, re-writing. There must be some robotic woodpecker built into a human brain that always pecks the right hemisphere and whispers: "Change this, improve that - - -."

I'm guessing they miss the sex, right?

@Sandeep, Hah, I slipped into facebook language.

I love romance and romantic stories. I'm not fond of silly/stupid humor. So a lot of Rom-Coms don't work for me for that reason.

I am thinking people actually want more RomComs but better. Why else would RomComs be trashed more than others, considering as @Pete said, only 1 in 20 in any genre are really good.

@Frank, thanks. @Doug, what would feel like a laugh track in a movie? @Niki, good point, made me think if you meant expectation in imagination may project from what is often considered expectations of naïve, often male psyche? @Les, you're good. @Debra, I hear you. Isn't it also true IRL, for a different but source of the problem reason : )

So, writers, here's your chance to break the mold by penning a compelling R/C