Thursday, August 7, 2008

Spending Some Time Rewriting

The script for our latest film project has been going through some significant rewrites of late.

Which means we have been "killing" some of our darlings. Not literally, of course; but you know, those scenes or anecdotes that you as writer are particularly fond of.

Or as Samuel Johnson once advised: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

Hmmm... That's easier said than done.

But, here we go; dissecting the screenplay, scene-by-scene to figure out which parts really move the story forward. And which parts need to go into our backburner files.

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