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Creative update #2
I’ve gotten some feedback on my screenplay from my writer’s group. Armed with a handful of new ideas, I’ve been plugging away at it again. When I first started re-writing it, I had this tremendous creative burst and wrote 14 pages in about a week. That’s massive for a screenplay. Now things have settled to a relative trickle. Not a bad thing. I’m still writing regularly, and the story is progressing, and I’m certainly in no danger of suffering a creative blowout.
When I get tired of working on the screenplay, I’ve been working on a short story. I really don’t find it that hard to switch between writing disciplines. I do it at work with news and editorials. When you write drama, you have to stick with dialogue, action, and images. Prose writing lets you play with description and exposition. It actually feels pretty good to write in one style, and then write in another. It’s almost as it it exercises the brain in different places.