Lazarus says, “Go for it, because no one is going to see it. It’s a process. There is no wrong way.”
MAKE IT INTERESTING
Writing is a process. Great screenwriters take creative risks. Without an interesting story, even the most organized screenplay will be unmarketable. The goal should never be to copy another writer’s style; instead exercise your own imagination and experiment with different ways to spark your story.
When Warner Brothers hired Tim McCanlies to adapt Ted Hughes’ famous English novel “The Iron Man” for the screen, he struggled with whether he should remain true to Hughes’ vision or develop a new story based loosely on the original book’s events. McCanlies chose to do something risky and wildly creative; he Americanized “The Iron Man” by setting the story in the 1950s during the Cold War terror and renamed it “The