Sheldon Turner Screenwriting Lesson
Posted by adminSep 23
Sheldon Turner is the prototype for the smart, brash, ambitious young screenwriter – only he’s also got a law degree from NYU and has had his fiction published in the New Yorker. Turner recently br…
this guy speaks truth.
hey woobie90 here’s some advise if you want to be a writer…. proof read everything you write, even dumb comments on YouTube. P.S. Grammar isn’t spelled (Grammer)
i missed the part where i cared about what u think. if i took the time to proof read the comments i made online i would be there forever. so like i said im only human. no one is perfect. i sure as hell do not let anything i write screenplay wise have mistakes like that.
Good look dialouge. I’m subscribing… And to Sheldon… That’s game baby!
Schizophrenic
RE: Writing what you know. That’s often taken as ‘write from what you’ve DONE’. I take it as ‘write from your perspective’.Every person has a unique perspective on every event. So write your screenplay from that perspective. How do you feel about it?You can’t write about vampires from ‘what you know’, only from your own perspective.
And writing!*
Sheldon Turner says he doesn’t like to write about what he knows.But Ricky Gervais does like to write about what he knows, Gervais says this in his Inside The Actors Studio interview on You Tube.Discuss….
I think his point is that 1) he doesn’t ONLY write about what he knows and 2) to be careful of writing about what you know, making sure that you can be objective and underscore the importance of the incident to a third-party (not just to you)
Yes I’d agree with that.But the difficulty is when deciding on if you think the audience will like your screenplay — every line of dialogue and action — as well as the entire story.