I Will Survive
Wrote for a good 7 and a half hours today. Whether any of it is usable or not will have to wait till I can muster up a modicum of objectivity. But it felt good to do it.
My hope is that even if it isn't, it might lead to something that is.
But I find I do what other writers say to not do. I really amend and rewrite as I go along. Those over seven hours only resulted in a little over three pages.
I find that it parallels what I did as a theatre director. I would work one scene to the bone, trying to get the actors to do it fully and truthfully, getting all the beats and individual moments and truly engaging with each other. I found that this tends to inform the other scenes because the actors now understand the very truth of who they are and what they're fighting for. So they tend to go more smoothly
Another lesson I learned later is something I heard another director say: "If you get 85% of what you want from an actor, you're way ahead of the game."
It all depends on how good the actors are.
My hope is that even if it isn't, it might lead to something that is.
But I find I do what other writers say to not do. I really amend and rewrite as I go along. Those over seven hours only resulted in a little over three pages.
I find that it parallels what I did as a theatre director. I would work one scene to the bone, trying to get the actors to do it fully and truthfully, getting all the beats and individual moments and truly engaging with each other. I found that this tends to inform the other scenes because the actors now understand the very truth of who they are and what they're fighting for. So they tend to go more smoothly
Another lesson I learned later is something I heard another director say: "If you get 85% of what you want from an actor, you're way ahead of the game."
It all depends on how good the actors are.
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