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tyler
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I write a lot of stuff (nothing published of course) but it's usually intended for film or tv, and therefore it's in that style.
Jack walks into Eric's apartment and walks towards the spare bedroom where Eric is sleeping.
Jack - holding a knife to Eric's throat - 'You think you can mess with me Eric?'
(Yes, I'm aware that it's not the 'proper' way scripts are written, if I ever go to someone, I will change the format)
But is it as easy as describing everything in mundane details?
Jack walked into the dark room where he knew his foe Eric would be sleeping. Despite having a very large room, Eric very rarely slept in his own room, instead he opted for his spare room where he found the hard wood floors much more comfortable then his spring bed. Jack raised the knife in his hand as the moonlight shone from the newly sharpened and blood stained blade tip. Jack slowly lowered the knife to the sleeping Eric's neck, the blood dripped onto his face as he laid silent and still, blood from Jack's previous murder that night, Eric's secret lover.
Whenever I write scripts it's so easy, I see it all in my head and it just plays out, I add some little descriptions above the text so that when I read the text it 'comes alive' again. And the whole point of writing a book and describing everything, is to paint that image (that I see in my head) into the reader's head, but the more I describe the scene, the more it seems to fall apart.
And what about conversations in books? Is it wrong to have extended dialogues.
Jack: How could you?
Eric: How could I what?
Jack: How could you sleep with her?
Eric: Sleep with who?
Jack - angrily : Jen, How could you sleep with her when you knew I liked her.
I have conversations that run on for a few pages. I guess the main question is how do I stop my 'script writing' methods, use less dialogue and more description.
Jack walks into Eric's apartment and walks towards the spare bedroom where Eric is sleeping.
Jack - holding a knife to Eric's throat - 'You think you can mess with me Eric?'
(Yes, I'm aware that it's not the 'proper' way scripts are written, if I ever go to someone, I will change the format)
But is it as easy as describing everything in mundane details?
Jack walked into the dark room where he knew his foe Eric would be sleeping. Despite having a very large room, Eric very rarely slept in his own room, instead he opted for his spare room where he found the hard wood floors much more comfortable then his spring bed. Jack raised the knife in his hand as the moonlight shone from the newly sharpened and blood stained blade tip. Jack slowly lowered the knife to the sleeping Eric's neck, the blood dripped onto his face as he laid silent and still, blood from Jack's previous murder that night, Eric's secret lover.
Whenever I write scripts it's so easy, I see it all in my head and it just plays out, I add some little descriptions above the text so that when I read the text it 'comes alive' again. And the whole point of writing a book and describing everything, is to paint that image (that I see in my head) into the reader's head, but the more I describe the scene, the more it seems to fall apart.
And what about conversations in books? Is it wrong to have extended dialogues.
Jack: How could you?
Eric: How could I what?
Jack: How could you sleep with her?
Eric: Sleep with who?
Jack - angrily : Jen, How could you sleep with her when you knew I liked her.
I have conversations that run on for a few pages. I guess the main question is how do I stop my 'script writing' methods, use less dialogue and more description.