Screenwriting 101: Sean Robert Daniels
“When I’m writing, I like to research second. Steven King said this amazing thing in his book on writing. Don’t write what you know. Write…
“When I’m writing, I like to research second. Steven King said this amazing thing in his book on writing. Don’t write what you know. Write what you believe is true. So I kind of run with that. I write what feels right. And in the middle of the script, I’ll do something like in dialogue or in the action lines, ‘insert researched point here,’ or ‘insert jargon there.’ And then I just move on. For me, the important thing about discovering the story and the characters is getting that first draft done.”
— Sean Robert Daniels
From Go Into The Story interview, February 2013
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