Most screenwriters at one point or another get stuck somewhere in the process of writing. It can happen anywhere in the process and sometimes it amounts to a small bump in the road and sometimes it causes writers to abandoned what they’ve written altogether. In On Writing, Stephen King writes that at one point he was so frustrated with his first novel that he threw the whole thing away. But his wife rescued the manuscript for Carrie and encouraged him to keep writing.
Writers develop all kinds of strategies of helping themseleves get through problem spots in their writing, including this practical way;
“I get stuck all the time. I just try not to panic as the time slips away. Something usually clicks. One thing, when I get into trouble I’ll switch the weather. I’ll write ‘it’s raining’ or ‘it’s snowing’ ‘ It makes it sort of comforting to me, and then I can get a sense of the scene, that feeling. It’s weird. I’ve done that many, many times. Then I write the scene and the ‘light rain’ will either stay or go.”
Screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons)
Secrets of Hollywood’s Top Screenwriters
by Lyall Bush
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