Screenwriting : Pitching by Bardi Osobuanomola Catherine

I like what you're saying. I think in writing your eyes need to be the camera. You need to learn to describe what you see and not what someone is thinking or even what's behind something that is there. If you can't see it, it doesn't exist. All that stuff has to come out in the dialogue. So the more effort you put into describing what you see, the better writer you will be, For what it's worth.

Practicing writing descriptions of objects and people can only help your sense of observation and writing descriptions, which is important as a writer. Another very important thing to do is to read lots of scripts in the genre you are interested in, and/or for films you liked. And study them. That is one of the fastest ways to improve your screenwriting sensibility.

I agree with James. If you're going to show an object or person, it should relate to what's going on in the scene. If there's an up close shot of something again, it should relate. Unless you want to describe items in a room so we get a feel for who the character is, i.e. sports trophies adorn a shelf on the wall. Posters of fast cars hang on the walls in the room, etc. But make it quick and too much detail. That's just an example. What you could also do to help your writing is to write out in great detail everything that you see in the scene (for practice purposes) and then condense it, if that makes sense. Another example "A typical high school jock's room..trophies, posters of cars, rock bands, etc. Hope this helps! : )

Less is more. To repeat what James and Christine said - only what is relevant. I like what you're doing and I think it's a valuable tool to get your mind in the "write" mindset. Try taking a short scene of a movie scene and writing it in script format the way you think it would be written by the original screenwriter. You'll learn to be very concise.

Thanks everyone.

We all forgot something (unless someone said it and I overlooked it): READ scripts!