Film Courage: Two kinds of writing, creating and shaping?
Glenn Gers, Screenwriter: There are two kinds of writing and every piece of writing uses both kinds. It’s not like somebody only does creating and somebody only does the shaping. Every writer has to get used to sort of an over and over again process of creating (what I call creating) and it’s just the stuff that comes out, what some people call the vomit draft or the experience of just trying to imagine stuff and write down what you think trying to put yourself in a scene or think what would they say next and write it down. You’re accessing something that truly humanity has no idea what it is or where it comes from. I don’t know if it’s something that other creatures have but people have this weird ability to make stuff up, it’s essentially dreaming. You think of a story or a character or a moment or a scene…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Glenn Gers has been a full-time professional writer of movies and television for 25 years. His credits include theatrical features, no-budget indies, TV staff and episodes, original movies for cable and streaming, such as BROTHER’S KEEPER (2002), FRACTURE (2007), MAD MONEY (2008) and many more. He has won multiple festival prizes and an Emmy. He provides tips for writing on his Youtube channel Writing For Screens and offers script-consulting via his website Writingforscreens.com.
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