Each page, for everyone of us
It could be easy to blame it on education, as it is commonly admitted. Blame it on parents, on culture, on social traditions. On individual limits or psychological flaws. On shyness and personal weakness.
Thruth, it seems to me, is that it relates to so much deeper layers of the human and animals minds.
The art of reading
The screenwriting litterature is abundant in saying all screnwriters should hone their craft by reading and writing.
And this of course, every single day of a somehow strange life. Write every day for sure. Read every day : fiction books, newspaper, scripts, good and bad, more books from classicals to contemporary, read all formats, train your reading muscles.
But the biggest skill of all, and this one I never see underlined in these books, is to read what you write.
Simple tools. A noble word : intelligence.
We all read, write, feel. We all try hard to imagine the most emotional scenes, the best way to tell the stories we work on. Fine. But do we all ? Really ? I mean do we really share the same experience ? When I …
Marc Omeyer. Auteur, scénariste - French writer.
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