You're cruising through your screenplay when suddenly you slam into a wall. Your protagonist needs to admit their love, or confront the villain, or solve the mystery, but you have no clue what should actually happen on the page. The blank page mocks you. Your creative momentum dies.We've all been there.The Oxford Writer calls this hitting "that part of the maritime chart that is blank except for the words which the old cartographers would write, 'Here be dragons.'" But you don't need to turn this into an existential crisis. Whether you're writing a screenplay or novel, here are some tips to get through the block. - YouTube www.youtube.com The PlaceholderInstead of powering through or panicking, borrow from the future. "If you're writing and you reach a scene where you don't know what happens next and you can't think of something, you put what is known as a placeholder," The Oxford Writer said. Write a quick description and keep moving. I've heard this advice in the past (and given it to other writers), and what I do is usually just write the slugline. If I know a location or series of locations, I can get to a point where I know what's going on, and I can write the next scene I'm excited about instead of stalling.For screenwriters, this might look like:INT. SARAH'S APARTMENT - NIGHTIf you have the bare bones of the scene, you can add something like: [CONFRONTATION. Sarah discovers Mike's betrayal.]That's it. Move on to the next scene...
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