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Film Courage: Do great writers plan out their stories, or do they discover them as they write?
Adam Argot, Story Artist/Instructor/YouTuber: It’s an interesting question. It’s something that mostly just writers care about because in the end, nobody cares.
Just give me a good story.
I don’t care what your method is.
I don’t care if you have a formula or not, as long as I’m fascinated and engaged.
If George R. R. Martin, I’m going to cite him again, he uses the metaphor of the gardeners and the architects, or the pantsers and the plotters, or the Stephen Kings or the Blake Snyders.
It’s people that either go by your gut or you plan everything out.
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Ultimately, it comes down to whatever your process is your process.
And it’s fine.
Most of the time working, when I’m in the studio and I’m working with different producers or I’m engaging a group of writers, we’re all working together on the same script.
Most of the time we’re not talking process.
We don’t talk like:
What exactly is your inciting incident?
Where is your impetus?
Where is your midpoint?…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Adam Argot has worked in film, TV, games, and publishing as a director, writer, author, story and concept artist for over 15 years for both major and independent studios. Along with in-depth podcasts and interviews like Film Courage, Story Kinetics, and a YouTube video series The Art of Story, Adam has also taught story structure at Calarts and as a guest lecturer in the USC Screenwriting Program.
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