6 Exercises in Limitation Storytelling on the Page
6.1 Starter Yeast
6.1.1 A Spare Scene Screenwriting Exercise
Do you know what the hardest part of teaching screenwriting is?
If you immediately thrust your hand skyward and didn’t wait to be called on before blurting out, “Getting students to write,” you wouldn’t be wholly wrong. That is a challenge, yes … but it actually isn’t the hardest part. The hardest part?
Getting them to have something to write about.
And we’re not even talking about big-ticket items like complex characters, big ideas and grand themes. No, we’re talking about the basics: having anything to write about. At all! Meaning they don’t have an idea for a script to write. Or, maybe more accurately, ...
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