I've been puzzling over writing a short (film) the past couple of weeks. Kind of from a production angle, rather than a writer's angle. The problem is how to write something with a bunch of constraints.
When feeling clever or inspired, my thoughts tend toward characters and situations rather than plots or premises.
I'm wondering how the writers and would-be writers around here approach things? Is there a natural preference? How does one work with parameters/constraints like "can't have more than 5 characters. can't work with more than 3 sets. no fx."? There's lots of advice out there for how to get one's butt in chair, how to seek relief and the muse, but not so much on how to engage creativity in a pretty sparse context.
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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
When I'm feeling uncreative two things work for me. 1) Read somebody else's stuff. 2) Type something I've already written into the computer. I don't know why this works. Apparently I find data entry to be very creative.
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