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Film Courage: John, we would love to hear your process about how you write books. Can you talk about the writing process? How do you start?
John Vorhaus, Author/Speaker/Artist/Screenwriter: Sure. Here’s how I start writing a book.
I take myself by surprise.
I wake up one day and start working on that book.
I may have been thinking about it for a while.
Today’s the day.
I’m going to get into it.
The next thing I do is drop all expectations.
The book will be what the book is.
My job right now is to get the words out on the page as quickly as possible.
I go into writer mode and I stay out of editor mode which means I’m going to write the whole entire book as it comes out of my brain and it comes out of my fingers, doing my best not to go back and try to fix all of the obvious mistakes I’m making along the way.
I separate writing from editing.
The first part of the job is to write the first draft, 100% writing 0% editing.
Once I’ve written that first draft then I’ll go back and start casting a critical eye on my choices, see if I’m satisfied with them, whether I want to make changes and if I make changes…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
BIO:
John Vorhaus is best known for his comedy-writing classic, The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You’re Not. He has taught and trained writers in 37 countries on five continents at last count, and created TV shows of his own in Nicaragua, Romania and elsewhere. His writing credits include dozens of teleplays and screenplays, plus seven novels and some two dozen works of non-fiction. His latest book is the little book of STANDUP. Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Writers Guild of America. He lives in Southern California and secretly controls the world from JohnVorhaus.com.
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