Recracking

I started today by thinking the opening to my screenplay was rubbish. No one wants to see a family talking at a pub. Especially with horrid dialogue.

My approach to it at the moment is to write it with Annie Hall in mind. It is however, nothing like Annie Hall.

Then I sat down. Page 29. Waiting to write. Having no idea what to write.

If you cannot think of anything, just get on with the day. Clean, cook, exercise, watch films, read books, listen to podcasts and read blogs and get some sunshine.

Then it came to me. A flash forward of a moment that I didn't intend to write, then it won't be a boring repeated moment. It would instead get into a readers head that the script is going in a distinct direction.

When flash forwards are shown in films, eventually we get to it and it doesn't surprise me. So it is a technique that'll work.

Not too sure if I am ready to write this screenplay. I'll just force it through, one of my lecturers had a great rule for writing that is common, but still worth remembering. Don't get it right, get it done.

Cheers for that Morris. Just got to break on through to the other side.

Every time I feel that the writing is easy and fun. I go away positive and when I come back to the keyboard the next day. The angst returns. I have to keep recracking. As someone who hasn't written a lot of anything, constant stop and starts, not knowing what I'm doing is part of getting away from failure. By embracing failure, it makes things more interesting.

Life is an experiment. You have the beakers, the liquids and a bunson burner. You can do whatever you want. Mix the liquids. Use the bunson burner. Or just throw it on the floor.