tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post2757282843310318440..comments2023-11-07T21:12:19.852-06:00Comments on Wyrdsmiths: Ten Seconds...*tate hallawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631759014508937940noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post-36867751398236524202008-10-20T13:12:00.000-05:002008-10-20T13:12:00.000-05:00I hear you, Marc. I actually spend a lot of my ti...I hear you, Marc. I actually spend a lot of my time in my SF/F class at the Loft talking my students out of writing like that movie playing in their heads. Books and short stories aren't structured like movies, nor should they be. <BR/><BR/>I try to teach my students that "conflict" (or as you put it "big thrill moments") don't have to be punching or kicking or bullets flying. It CAN be those things, but hooks can be subtle -- they just need to give the reader a reason to give a f**k, you know?tate hallawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06631759014508937940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post-54462824686040056702008-10-17T19:07:00.000-05:002008-10-17T19:07:00.000-05:00Very clever in the way they did it, but the idea i...Very clever in the way they did it, but the idea is becoming the standard way to write nowadays, just like a movie. I heard that the first thing they check in movieland is four specific pages of a script, which correspond to four specific minutes in the movie, which is where they expect the big thril moments to be, and if they aren't on those pages the script is tossed. It's what I hear from lots of the writer's I've met, "I write what I se, like a movie playing in my head." I can't complain, I do the same thing, although my focus is very different and probably wouldn't translate to film very well. And my 'big thrill moments' aren't on the four specific pages, either. As for RDJ, who better to play a reformed drunken playboy than a reformed drunken playboy. He did a grweat job, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com