muster
I’m trying to make myself write down what’s on my mind for the screenplay.
I don’t know what I’m afraid of. It might have something to do with what my screenwriting instructor said. He asked me a question about one of my characters. He asked me why I didn’t take them in a certain direction. I just stuttered and couldn’t come up with an answer…and then I said…”I wanted to take them in that direction but…but….b-b-b” And then he said, “but it’s going to be harder—it’s going to be harder for you emotionally.” And I knew that was true but at the same time I didn’t want to sound like some sort of baby. It is true.
I don’t want to get immersed in it because I’m afraid of what sort of things I’m gonna get into.
He also said that we’re afraid to put our characters in difficult situations because we sympathize with the main character because we write ourselves into them…which I knew was true but I never heard anyone say it before.
