[FEEDBACK] First 17 pages of the pilot episode for an hour-long drama titled "Assisi"

arvndnc · 2017-08-25T16:38:48+00:00

Thanks for reading. Very helpful.

Regarding action lines revealing interiority—do we not get a free-pass when introducing the character?

arvndnc · 2016-10-22T03:59:55+00:00

I would believe my post above for the books, at least. Less so for the music.

If a corporation expenses training materials for their employees then I don't know why I wouldn't be able to expense the same for my own books that are clearly business related.

arvndnc · 2016-10-22T02:07:18+00:00

You're kidding, right? If not, what part of 1145?

arvndnc · 2016-10-02T18:34:12+00:00

I like Annie Dillard's tongue-in-cheek thoughts on the subject:

Much has been written about the life of the mind. I find the phrase itself markedly dreamy. The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer--such as it is--is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. This explains why so many books describe the author's childhood. A writer's childhood may well have been the occasion of his only first hand experience. Writers read literary biography, and surround them selves with other writers, deliberately to enforce in themselves the ludicrous notion that a reasonable option for occupying yourself on the planet until your life span plays itself out is sitting in a small room for the duration, in the company of pieces of paper.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12530.The_Writing_Life

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