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[Emilymcplugger]

Understood. My point was that, having found that point, you can add foreshadowing to shore it up.

Fair enough …my bad (bit of Me-Splaining there …duh!)

It’s amazing how the film Rocky seemed to be built the opposite way.

They hit snag after snag and kept having to roll with it, leading to lots of great moments that weren’t scripted.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Fair enough …my bad (bit of Me-Splaining there …duh!)

It’s amazing how the film Rocky seemed to be built the opposite way.

They hit snag after snag and kept having to roll with it, leading to lots of great moments that weren’t scripted.

I think with film it's quite different. The writers have ideas, the director has his vision, the actors have their inout. With writing, it's just you and that damn blank page.

 

[MsNatalie99]

Another example I have is a book I've written that I'm still trying that it. 260 some odd pages, but I ended up abandoning it for a while while I was at school. While going through it tightening up the screws, I turned it into a disjointed mess. Anyway, I have a character who had seized the throne by force. I wanted to Showcase that he was just as cunning and methodical as he was a capable fighter.

So he was having a breakfast with a general and a senator. During this breakfast it became clear that the two men were trying to betray him and remove him from the throne. I tried to write every convoluted haha I'm smarter than you the solution to the situation that I could think of, but they all came out sounding overly complicated and nonsensical. However, earlier in the story he had been visiting the General's troops delivering barrels of wine and food trying to gain their favor, but they eventually turned him away.

The solution came when the general had summoned some of his men to kill my character. My character had just finished talking about all the crooked things a general does, rarely being present with his men, lying about how many he has to avoid paying them for their extended service, and having anyone who questioned him hung.

Rather than killing my character, the soldiers held down the general they slit his throat. It occurred to me that the soldiers didn't have to side with my character the moment he first approached them. But when forced to choose between the one person taking care of them, and the one who was supposed to be, the answer becomes obvious.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I think with film it's quite different. The writers have ideas, the director has his vision, the actors have their inout. With writing, it's just you and that damn blank page.

Well, Barton Fink certainly had the blank page to consider and he was a screenwriter. I can't find the scene where his writer's block starts, but I found the one where it ends.

I think I've got the scenes in the correct order - but, he pays a price anyway.

"Blood, Sweat, and Canvas!"