Christian Elder, Screenwriter: Two hours, three hours. Once I’m spending like six hours a day on, it’s happening.
Film Courage: Christian, what’s more fun for you, writing your screenplays or reading them?
Christian: Sometimes I don’t even know if I like writing my screenplays. Usually starting a screenplay sucks.mWhen you get in the zone Oh yeah, that’s it, zone of writing a script, that’s when you get jonesed. That means that you actually enjoy waking up at seven to eight a.m (even sometimes earlier like around six) and you put on the coffee and sit down in front of the computer and keep moving it forward because you’re confident as to where all the pieces fit and where you’re going. Even if you’re not confident it’s like you’re getting in the car again after a pit stop running the Le Mans and you’re going to win the race as long as you keep the lug bolts on the tires, that’s when it’s fun. But sometimes it takes a while to get to that place. I do realize that for some people it never is fun in the process. You can be slogging it out quite a bit. I do recall when it was for me it was never fun writing it until I got to the second draft, until I got to rewriting then I’d go…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Christian Elder is a screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. He has been a finalist for Tribeca All Access, a semi-finalist for the International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Award, a quarterfinalist for the ScreenCraft Play contest and a quarterfinalist for the Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. His work written for the stage has been recently developed at the Billie Holiday Theatre through the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop and Urban Stages, both in New York. He has written and directed two short films and is the creator and executive producer of the new crime fiction anthology podcast Hell, California. Elder’s Hell, California, is a hardboiled crime fiction podcast anthology series (co-produced by Jeremy Foley). It takes place in a mysterious, mythical California border town called Hell. Each episode is an original standalone noir story, often about greed, lust and murder. In March 2020, Elder, Foley and a team of six writers formed an online TV writers’ room during the pandemic, resulting in this series.
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