Episode 11: How to be a more Productive Screenwriter
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2024
- The Go Draft is a masterclass series with veteran Hollywood screenwriter Andy Guerdat.
If you are currently a staff writer, a screenwriting student, or just someone who wants to break into screenwriting, then this series is for you. Learn about inside Hollywood topics from someone who has, and is, experiencing them,
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.. fewer years they lived yet, less demands in life? We are pulled apart by social demands and time saving efforts.
My mantra for awhile now: stay bored. Boredom is the bedrock of creativity.
Such interesting insight and so true! However, Jane Austen never had to do battle with LA traffic...
This is incredible quality teaching. Thank you
As an autism consultant, I thank you for another manner in which to explain why pathological screen time is detrimental to kids.
Good discussion, Andy. Social media was distracting me to where it was like, I can either be good at social media, or good at screenwriting, but both couldn't occupy my brain, so I quit social media. I don't walk much since I ride a bike (very possible in much of LA!).
Your words ❤ So simple so real
As for me, the most productive and streaking time is just after waking up from sleep. Like 'moving to a new place', I unload everything from the U-Haul truck and organize later: I write fast and rewrite slow. 'Walking' and 'showering' have proven and tested to be magical moments for fishing ideas (or attracting 'idea flies' to land on my head). Last time I checked, Tarantino mentioned 'swimming' too...
Instead of clicking on the next video, I'm going on a walk. The RUclips algorithm is going to hate that you're not encouraging your viewers to click on another video, to keep your viewers on their platform... but my brain thanks you.
After watching about 100 hours of material on the internet, mostly RUclips, on how to learn to write scripts or outlines for scripts or what to do with these ideas in my head, I have to say that the content you provided is not even remotely similar to anything I have watched so far.
Hit in the point.
Love this. Terrence Malick would also go for walks to think. Chuck Palahniuk wrote about attending AA meetings and time-share seminars. He found that when his body was trapped, his mind would want to imaginatively escape. Great if you are fiction writer, not so great if you are in recovery or a student.
This is insightful. Thank you. ( that’s why I enjoy taking walks as it allows me to explore my inner thoughts and gain clarity on my ideas and problems..)
Andy, you make a great observation here with how the great writers wrote so much and did not tend to live in a world full of electronic distractions, although hemingway had his own distractions, abusing booze, women and animals. Hemingway sometimes went nearly a decade between books, yet he might have been writing things that went unpublished in those years, i do not know. Not a fan of hemingway, he was a cruel man with an ego to feed unlike Mark Twain who at least spoke out about corruption and animal abuse.
thank you...
Thank you! Looking forward to your next video.
Our modern day resources are a double-edged sword. True, we are bombarded with distractions in our waking hours, but the research we can get done thanks to the internet, RUclips, etc. is so invaluable. And programs like Final Draft take all the hassle out of formatting, spelling, etc. and allows us writers to focus on story, characters, plot, etc.
This is great advice! The one question I have is, how does one keep a brisk pace in terms of output, rather than obsessing and trying to perfect a single project?
Absolutely true…walks are actually a life away from life…😊
Following up on your reply, how long till i can use a computer program that lets me sit here in my underwear and direct and create my movie with computer generated scenes, actors, voices and the whole bit that look so real that you could not tell if it was done in a computer or done in real life with real people? I do not like the idea of the big production movie coming to an end, but at the same time, if it lets me tell my story, my way without having to convince suits to trust me with millions of dollars or suits telling me what i can and cannot do, i have to kind of love it at the same time. Kind of like a self published movie, although without the millions spent on promotion which could mean my movie gets seen by only me, aunt matilda and the FBI. One downside could be that i sit here endlessly obsessing over it like howard hughes. Then there would be the endless arguments with my cats about what changes to make. And also if i wanted to use popular music, the prices would have to come way down, which they might do if the traditional big hollywood system crumbles.