What is this strange and compelling need to write things down?
To get things out of us? They say there's a deep wound in us that needs to heal and the
only medicine, for most of us, is to write the wound away.
Or to cut into the wound and find the source of the pain and then, by writing it down,
extract the poison. Some of my most vivid memories of childhood are of the movies.
The movies replaced a world in which I didn't want to live with one in which I did.
Later on, writing became a life-long means of transportation from one world to the other.
This book is about one way to make that journey. Through screenwriting.
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say,
and then to say it with the utmost levity," said George Bernard Shaw.
And to say it, I might add, with the utmost brevity.
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