Before We Begin Writing In any adaptation—in any screenplay, really—the make or break work is done before the writing actually begins. The writing is never what takes the most time. It’s trying to figure what you’re going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene. Normally, to fill those terrible preparatory days, I tend to do a lot of research.
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