Screenwriting 101: Sean Hartofilis
“I don’t think writing is as much an act as a way of being. Or at least not for me to be effective. It’s not just sitting down at your desk…
“I don’t think writing is as much an act as a way of being. Or at least not for me to be effective. It’s not just sitting down at your desk for a few hours and expecting something to happen. It’s the living and thinking that makes the writing. I think about these stories constantly so that when I sit down, I’m ready to go. I’m excited. I can step into the world of the story and experience it with the characters, or as the characters. I can get in and out of situations and solve problems and have fun, because I at least know where I am, if not where I’m going. Sitting down with an empty head is why people get blocked. You need a seed to grow. Fill your head…fill you heart…then sit down. And, yes, at some point, you’ve got to sit down. But I think you’ll find it so much easier to sit down if you’re always thinking about it. Unless you’re Thomas Wolfe. I think he wrote on top of his fridge.”
— Sean Hartofilis
Go Into The Story Interview, January 2014
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