Screenwriting 101: Neil Drumming

“I have a tendency to write characters that are flawed in a way that I know or I feel familiar with. I like characters who have a journey to make even if it’s not a vast journey. Usually that encompasses them having something dark about them, some problem. Then the movie, the story is getting them to wherever that journey ends. I like closed off people. I like people who live in deception who are not entirely true to themselves. I think most people are not very true to themselves, they don’t know exactly who they are. That struggle is one of the motivations for me as a writer. Just getting that person through that journey is usually the way I structure the story.”

— Neil Drumming

From Go Into The Story interview, September 2013

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