Cyrcle of Men

An army might be sent upon the empty lands. The men come down from the mountains. Travel down along the river valley. Going with the fish seeking sea.

There they stand, the soldiers, and marvel. Looking at water frozen in motion, in a loop of evercoming animation. It lies like a sheet of paper cringing in fire, and at the same time glas cooled down into church windows.

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To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say “I’m a writer” out loud. This is especially so among the spec screenwriting crowd I like to hang with.

Snyder, B. (2005). Save the cat! : the last book on screenwriting you’ll ever need. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions. Page 11.

Script Scene vs. Story Scene

The scene is an important building block when creating a screenplay. It is used to beat out a script before sitting down for the first draft. Every scene has a certain purpose, it has a protagonist with a goal, it ideally has a three-act-structure of its own. This is all very fine when put on index cards, but when you’re actually putting the scenes to paper, suddenly different rules apply: A new scene starts when the place or the time change.

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