Script Writers Are Writers Too
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- anomalocaris
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Script Writers Are Writers Too
I think there is some amazing writing out there in the form of scripts, and the quality of the writing absolutely makes or breaks a film or TV series.
Have you encountered any TV series you think has had especially good (or bad) writers on board?
The ones that come to mind for me are Supernatural (when the original writing team was there and Kripke was actively vetting scripts), and the UK version of Being Human.
The new version of Hawaii 5-0 is one I think is an example of a good concept, great cast and flashy cinematography, bogged down by bad writing.
--Vol. Bobby Sands
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FYI: If you think you ever want to try your hand at screenwriting, download some free scriptwriting software. I prefer Celtx myself, but you need a primer to figure out how to use those programs correctly.
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I'd love to have the talent for screenwriting, and I'm told I have a knack for dialogue, but I'm afraid I'm not much good when it comes to plotting a long piece.
--Vol. Bobby Sands
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- RobertM
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I'll buy that. I guess you could say everyone who writes falls under the writer category, sort of like auto mechanic. But writers, like mechanics, often specialize. One guy fixes Hondas, another does Chevys. One person writes plays, another one mystery novels. The rare writer is one who can do all of it.Nirvana wrote:In my opinion, anyone who puts pen to paper in order to keep someone else interested, whether it be a story writer, script writer or just a scholar writing an essay, is a writer.
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--Vol. Bobby Sands
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Some of my favorite screenplays have been those to "The Silence of the Lambs," "Mr. Skeffington," "Gone with the Wind," "All About Eve," and "Shakespeare in Love." Of course, there are the Shakespeare movies... But those don't count.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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Wow. Non-fiction writers are true writers. You can string facts together but it won't always come out as a story the way non fiction writers make it. Some of the best books I have read were non fiction. I wonder where that writer got their intel.anomalocaris wrote:I actually had a (completely unpublished) writer inform me that if you haven't published FICTION, you really can't claim to be a published writer, because all nonfiction writers do is string facts together and that's not really writing.
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Some of my favorite screen writers: The writers of the BBC's Sherlock, FX's Justified, and CBS's Elementary. All of the above have fantastic characters, fantastic settings, and dialogue that makes me green with envy. For comedy, it's hard to beat 30 Rock, and The Big Bang Theory also has some great episodes, although those are a bit more hit-and-miss sometimes.
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I think it's script writers who are just rewriting a book that may seem like they have an easier job, because they should just be changing the source material into a different format, though I imagine that comes with a whole slew of difficulties. I'll just never understand why they deviate from the source material so much.
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I definitely agree with this, and I like how you worded it too.Nirvana wrote:In my opinion, anyone who puts pen to paper in order to keep someone else interested, whether it be a story writer, script writer or just a scholar writing an essay, is a writer.