Everyone gets writer's block. But this simple trick I learned from a friend helped me never lose a day. I'll be the first to admit I don't know everything about writing. In fact, over the last few years, I feel like I've learned arguably even more than I've taught. One of the biggest reasons I learned so much was that I spent a lot of time crossing from writing features, my usual medium, into writing television. On TV, things are done very differently. And I think, sometimes smarter. I was developing a show last year with a seasoned TV writer, and we were working on an outline. Now, when I'm writing a feature, I write an outline or even a treatment like we have here on No Film School. Then I look back and forth from that document to the screenwriting software I have open and hope the scenes come. My buddy saw me doing this and was like, "What happens if you get stuck?" And I mentioned taking a lot of walks... He had a much better solution. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 23 June, 2021