Today is a day for you guys to do some writing! I’m holed up reading Scriptshadow 250 scripts all day and haven’t been able to come up for air long enough to write something of any substance. If it helps, I will let you in on what kind of scripts I’ve been reading that haven’t been making the cut. The scripts tend to fall into two categories.
1) Way too complicated (too much going on).
2) Zero voice (extremely standard executions that display nothing in the way of a unique point-of-view).
At first glance, these may seem to contradict each other. To create something with a unique voice, don’t you need to move away from simplicity? Give the story more variables? In short, NO! What you need is to come at your idea from a unique angle. Steve Jobs could’ve written “Jobs” as a cradle-to-grave biopic. Instead, he chronicled the 45 minutes before the three most important product launches of Jobs’s life. As you can see, the story was still very simple.
Feel free to comment about that or use today’s post to pitch potential ideas you’re working on or ask the community for help on specific problems you’re dealing with in your current screenplay. I’ll see you tomorrow!
