Been rotting in my room for 10 days straight over a script and it’s total garbage
I am rotting in my room for over a week now trying to finish this short film script and I am losing my mind. My parents think I’m doing some deep creative work but I’ve just been staring at the same page layout on my laptop until my eyes burn. Every line of dialogue I write sounds so incredibly fake and dramatic, like something out of a bad daily soap. I tried changing the setting, changing the characters, but everything just feels plastic.
I was taking a break and watching Rahul Puri and Samar Khan podcast and this one line he said about how modern writers are too isolated and need real life experiences to write anything good just completely called me out. Like it actually hit me that I’ve been trying to think of a deep, realistic story while my actual life for the past 10 days has just been moving from my bed to the kitchen and back.
How do you guys even break out of this? Tell me I’m not the only one who completely freezes up like this.