Comments on: The Best Book on Writing I’ve Ever Read http://storyfix.com/the-best-book-on-writing-ive-ever-read Novel Writing, Screenwriting and Storytelling Tips & Fundamentals Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:42:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dude Andersone http://storyfix.com/the-best-book-on-writing-ive-ever-read/comment-page-1#comment-73673 Dude Andersone Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:27:52 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=78#comment-73673 Writing is most pleasing in its difficulty, is it not? Movie's are sound and color, and there is no challenge for actors to conspire life innit. Writing is most pleasing in its difficulty, is it not? Movie’s are sound and color, and there is no challenge for actors to conspire life innit.

]]> By: Emmanuel http://storyfix.com/the-best-book-on-writing-ive-ever-read/comment-page-1#comment-69796 Emmanuel Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:52:37 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=78#comment-69796 Beautiful post, beautiful blog! Thank you so much. Beautiful post, beautiful blog! Thank you so much.

]]> By: Mike Lawrence http://storyfix.com/the-best-book-on-writing-ive-ever-read/comment-page-1#comment-9593 Mike Lawrence Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:00:35 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=78#comment-9593 Amen brother. I never knew anything about writing except what I figured out on my own and the nebulous notions of "don't tell, show" (Then why do so many writers TELL? ugh.) and theme vs. plot. Never understood any of it. Wrote anyway. Oven mitt stuff. Then read about screenplay writing. A ha! The most important thing I've ever read: "Screen writing isn't art, it's craft." There were so many "so that's how you do it" moments as I studied more. I actually respect screenwriters more than novelists because they have a very limited amount of space to work with. 120 pages max. Novelists can go on and on. And on. I quite reading Tom Clancy after I realized he was using one of his characters to preach at me for 10 pages. Literally preaching. Can't do that in screenplay. (Except for Lions for Lambs. And that worked out so well.) Yes, it's formulaic. So is building a bookshelf. It was then that I finally started to believe that maybe I could do this. Because I finally *understood* it. Need to de-purple your novel? Write it as a screenplay. Amen brother. I never knew anything about writing except what I figured out on my own and the nebulous notions of “don’t tell, show” (Then why do so many writers TELL? ugh.) and theme vs. plot. Never understood any of it. Wrote anyway. Oven mitt stuff.

Then read about screenplay writing. A ha! The most important thing I’ve ever read: “Screen writing isn’t art, it’s craft.” There were so many “so that’s how you do it” moments as I studied more.

I actually respect screenwriters more than novelists because they have a very limited amount of space to work with. 120 pages max. Novelists can go on and on. And on. I quite reading Tom Clancy after I realized he was using one of his characters to preach at me for 10 pages. Literally preaching. Can’t do that in screenplay. (Except for Lions for Lambs. And that worked out so well.)

Yes, it’s formulaic. So is building a bookshelf. It was then that I finally started to believe that maybe I could do this. Because I finally *understood* it.

Need to de-purple your novel? Write it as a screenplay.

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