Writing For Screens
Glenn GersAn old screenwriter -- and new novelist -- sharing the process of creative writing in a time of chaos and possibility. Skills, tools, observations and explorations.
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Rearranging Deck Chairs?
This is fairly procedural, so feel free to skip to the “lesson” at the end.
Reading through the rough draft, I mostly saw how much the text needs work. But the words were, at least, there and the job is just taking a page-full of them and...
You Are Not Lazy
“Am I burned-out, lazy, or is there something else? Is there a way to help me see if it’s one or the other?” (from the comments section of my YouTube channel.)
The writer asking this question writes every single day, many pages, working on...
Reading Through
This past week I read the entire rough-draft manuscript. I took my time, setting it aside when I felt I was starting to grind. I tried to just read, but now and then if I thought of an important and specific change, I would jot a note in a...
The Third Man
This Substack is for writers, so let’s move past the filmmaking.
Let’s pretend not to be swept up and dazzled by Carol Reed’s high-contrast, densely-detailed images, the use of real war-torn locations, those skewed compositions insisting w...
Walk This Way
So many writers ask, “What do you think about the fact that...”
And then they describe the particular process of some famous writer: creating their outline as a spreadsheet, or dictating the dialogue into voice memos, or writing with a fou...
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Retired screenwriter, sometime online screenwriting teacher, impending novelist.
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