Posts tagged movies
A Good Screenplay is Like a Bach Fugue

I find myself using my piano training all the time when I’m writing. In the world of screenwriting, there are already musical terms in the jargon—a character might be too “one-note,” for instance, and scripts move in “beats.” For me, sitting through a good movie is virtually the same experience as sitting through a good musical performance.

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What Should I Call This? (On Titles)

I’m pretty okay with the whole creative process—the collection of materials and the fashioning of the materials into a form. What I struggle with is coming up with titles for the formed materials. On the one hand, shouldn’t the work speak for itself? On the other, the title contains the formed materials, making them officially cohesive.

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