{"id":355,"date":"2011-12-06T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2024-12-09T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T16:49:30","slug":"change-is-good-for-screenwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/change-is-good-for-screenwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Is Good For Screenwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it\u2019s a daily routine of meals, a weekly routine of phone calls, or going to your typical vacation destination, we are all creatures of habit, some more than others.\u00a0 We create comfort zones in our everyday lives, sometimes for fear of change and other times simply because we no what we like and we want an easy life.<\/p>\n

This is also true for screenwriting<\/a>.\u00a0 We may start out not knowing what kind of writers we are and what stories we want to tell and then discover our own voice, style and preferences along the way.\u00a0 Or we may know right from the get-go that we love thrillers and only want to right for this genre.\u00a0 Whichever camp you fall into habit can prove to be a good thing and a bad thing.\u00a0 Just because you like one kind of genre, doesn\u2019t mean you won\u2019t be good at writing another.\u00a0 Similarly, just because you THINK you\u2019re good at writing one type of story, doesn\u2019t mean you won\u2019t be better at writing a different kind.<\/p>\n

Script writing<\/a> should be viewed as another form of exercise \u2013 so long as we overlook the fact that we\u2019re normally slouched in a chair in front of the computer during most of the process. <\/em>Sometimes it\u2019s good to stretch your creative muscles, try new things and experiment.\u00a0 But stay off the drugs!\u00a0 Seriously though, writers become lazy, writing what they know and not pushing themselves to be innovative except within the constraints of their chosen genre.\u00a0 Instead, you should constantly challenge yourself and throw yourself in at the deep end once in a while.<\/p>\n

If you enjoy writing horrors, why not have a stab (pardon the pun) at writing a comedy?\u00a0 Who knows, it may produce a great script.\u00a0 Or, you may find out that you do have a good sensibility for humorous scenes but not enough for creating a full script in the genre.\u00a0 If that is the case, at least you know your boundaries and you may even be able to apply some of the lessons learned to your regular script and write a comedy horror.<\/p>\n

Try to imagine your story as a visual landscape and keep it interesting.\u00a0 If you’re always writing similar stories and characters, expand your palette.\u00a0 Add more color.\u00a0 Mix up your ingredients and make full use of your cinematic canvas.\u00a0 The process will at the very least teach you things about your approach to screenwriting and the experience will always help you no matter what kind of story you tell.\u00a0 Sometimes the lessons we learn through life are never immediately apparent but ultimately influence us in one way or another \u2013 screenwriting is no different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether it\u2019s a daily routine of meals, a weekly routine of phone calls, or going to your typical vacation destination, we are all creatures of habit, some more than others.\u00a0 We create comfort zones in our everyday lives, sometimes for fear of change and other times simply because we no what we like and we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[23,185,184,95,11,16,187,186,183,141],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dan-bronzites-script-tips","tag-creative-writing","tag-feature-screenplay","tag-feature-script","tag-screenwriters","tag-screenwriting","tag-script-writing","tag-spec-screenplay","tag-spec-script","tag-story-writing","tag-writing-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}