Screenwriting 101: Will Simmons

“Story ideas usually begin with a burning question or a visual motif. If you’re about to spend months writing and developing a script, you want to be certain that the central concept is worthy of your time. So I look for ideas that haunt me and keep me up at night. If you can find a question that gnaws at your creative subconscious and refuses to fade away, then you’re primed to write a story from a position of strength. This is a profession of obsessions. As writers, we’re stalkers of the written word, always hunting for the perfect combination of ideas and phrases to express images flickering in our mind’s eye.”

— Will Simmons

From Go Into The Story interview, August 25, 2013

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