Why fear of formatting, filmmaking & the future shouldn't intimidate you out of writing a script

There's something familiar about prose. We've all read at least a book or two in our lives and we understand generally how words flow together in a story. There's also something comfortingly self-contained about writing a book or story. We write it and someone reads it. The experience is pretty much complete with no external influence necessary.

But people get intimidated by scripts. I think it's because they have this aura of mystery around them, brought on by how we see TV, movies and...