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Wednesday, April 15
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
by Gene
Still working on it. One thing I've discovered-- something I never fully appreciated before-- is how much my own experience as a playwright has betrayed me in screenwriting. In a play you're responsible for every moment the characters experience in a plot, and you're not really supposed to have short scenes. You have long set pieces in one or two locations, you can't just drop in mid-scene and then cut quickly to the next. And that's all movies are, really, are two minutes or so in a single set before moving on to the next, with very little dialogue. So in editing I've discovered how often I wrote that extra one or two lines that didn't need saying, or showed a character not just driving to a location but getting to that location and getting out of the car and walking into the location. To give you an idea of the difference, on Saturday I turned what was thirteen pages in the last draft into two pages in the new draft. Yikes. Double yikes We have a fat dog. She's... really fat. So fat that today the vet ran a blood test to make sure she didn't have a thyroid problem. She doesn't; she's just fat. And I am sitting on my bed with her right now and in addition to being fat she is farting. Aren't you glad I'm blogging this from home? Sure you are.
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