... coming up with a solid concept or doing it justice writing it?
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President at LIONLIKE Media, LLC ♦ Screenwriter, Marketing Professional, Business Development/Sales, Creative Executive, Graphic Designer, Music Supervisor, PR / Public Relations Professional, Producer
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The biggest challenge for me is to make sure the formatting and action lines are industry correct. This is my first true selling script and if the formatting is wrong it's dead on arrival.
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I don't find either hard. I enjoy writing.
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Mike Childress
I get where you are coming from, but disagree. Some of us are terrific technicians without an original idea in our head, while others of us have terrific concepts but can't put a cohere...
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I get where you are coming from, but disagree. Some of us are terrific technicians without an original idea in our head, while others of us have terrific concepts but can't put a coherent sentence together to save our lives.
Of course most of us fall somewhere on the spectrum between those extremes, but where exactly is quite difficult to discern, even for ourselves. IMHO, ideation is a natural gift which is hard to improve upon, our ideas are about as good as they are apt to ever be (though there are strategies to get nominally better), whereas one can get much better at the craft with even a small amount of study and effort. Put more simply: while repetition is the key to mastery, you can't polish a turd.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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I find coming up with a concept fairly easy. I feel writing the story is more difficult as I frequently second guess myself on how something is worded or if there’s a way it could be better.