by Peggy Bechko
We writers have a lot on our minds and sometimes some of it might be better left behind. I mean sometimes we think and plan so much we can end up sabotaging ourselves or doing it all wrong.
Think about it, if you, as a writer are pondering how to be the next (fill in the blank with superstar script writer or author), then you’re on the wrong track. If all you’re doing is imitating or mimicking and not breaking out to be the writer YOU are then may I suggest a change in course.
Another thing many of us writers are guilty of is being obsessed with discovering what the ‘rules’ are and then following them. Now, when they apply to things like what a producer requests to make his or her life easier and get to the reading of your script or what an editor requests in the way of setting up your manuscript, the rules are to be followed. But when it comes to your actual writing, give it up, don’t be so knotted up about it and find your inner guide to tell you what your real story telling direction is. Who knows, breaking rules may equal creating new ones.