Can you all hear me in the back?
Source: Darlene Craviotto
#screenwriting #film #screenplay
“I’m a writer.
I’ve been one of the lucky ones to make a career out of it – out of screenwriting, actually. It didn’t happen right away, but once I was hired to write one film project, they started hiring me to write more. I wrote a book about it, about what it’s like to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. One of the reasons I wrote it was because most people have no understanding of what it is that we do. They think the actors make up all the dialogue and we write down what they tell us. I wish it was that easy. But no one really seems to understand the nature of our work. I had a meeting at an unemployment office several years ago – I wanted to transition to writing multi-media content. The employment counselor behind the desk (well aware of my writing résumé) smiled politely as she told me, “Oh no, dear. You can’t do multi-media – You have to be creative to do that kind of work!”
Nobody really understands what it is that a writer does.
I’m not sure I understand it either. I know what’s expected from…..”
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