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In some cases - not always, just sometimes, for a certain category of beginning or emerging writers – writing directly into format triggers self-censorship.
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It results in strained, unimaginative writing, especially if such writers actually start thinking in terms of production.
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I've been writing into the format for a couple of decades, and I guess especially lately I sharpened it to a decent level of being concise and expressive.
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(C)
But I can see sometimes people writing things amazingly well outside of format, and really being unable to express the same dramatic ideas within format.
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So – what helps them is writing plainly in whatever way they can, just let that stuff pour out of them.
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I tested it out, it works, I'm using it with students.
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Anything can be brought into strict format later - and another amazing thing is that sometimes the discoveries made during unformatted writing definitely would not be made if the writer was writing into the format.
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Translating these discoveries later into the format results in some stylistically astonishing things.
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#screenplayformat #creativeprocess
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#screenplayformat #creativeprocess
