Chapter 1Premise
Figure 1.1 Greg Lee Dampier–P is for premise: a writer’s superpower. It’s how the writer projects a personal truth into the universe.
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
–Jack London, Getting Into Print (1905)
In the beginning, there was darkness. A void. Most writers spend an endless amount of time staring at a blank page, waiting for ideas to come to them. There’s this great line from the movie Real Genius, “You can’t dictate innovation.” Yet that’s how most writers work. They wait for an idea/concept to dawn on them, or they go looking for it like a set of keys they misplaced. Those writers ...
Get Prewriting Your Screenplay now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
