Hello, I am a student at college and I have the opportunity to have a short 1:1 meeting with a producer of SAW, and I was wondering what are some things I could ask as a starting writer/director?
Hello, I am a student at college and I have the opportunity to have a short 1:1 meeting with a producer of SAW, and I was wondering what are some things I could ask as a starting writer/director?
I just had this experience recent and was wondering if anyone was in the same boat.
Have you ever read or seen something that fit your tastes perfectly and feels more like something you’d write more than anything you’ve actually written? I’ve had plenty of things where I think a story is good but I go ‘eh, I wouldn’t have written it though’ but have you ever had a story that fits everything to things you like in a story? I just recently saw something that I enjoyed every aspect of it, and in everything I’ve ever written has always had something that isn’t bad but I think isnt something I personally love but it fits for the story, it makes me sad because I try to write for myself first and foremost but then I find something that feels like it does a better job of writing for me, but it’s written by someone else. Anyone else ever had this feeling?
Hello, I recently just finished my first feature screenplay a few months back and was happy but not 100% satisfied, which is completely normal and I was fine with that. The problem came when I read a novel that was exactly what I’ve been trying to go for which is about codependency, childhood trauma, etc. and this novel just perfectly encapsulated many feelings I’ve had and what I was going for. I’ve had this feeling plenty of times where I see something and I’m like “wow, I wish I wrote that!” but I usually feel fine because I feel like I bring other value to the table and have other unique ways of interpreting things but no, this is a case where I would not change a single thing and it is exactly the story that I wanted to write, but someone else wrote it. What now? I genuinely feel like I lack purpose and a reason to write because this story has characters that I’ve liked more than any other piece of media ever, and they are exactly the characters and relationships I’ve been TRYING to write. Feeling pretty empty and lost, feels like what I wanted to do was done in exactly the way I wanted to do it
TLDR: I read a story that had exactly the characters, dynamics and structure I wanted to write in. I’ve felt this before with other stuff I wish I wrote, but this is completely different because there has never been anything that has achieved exactly what my goal in writing was. I don’t know what to do next, I feel like my purpose in writing is gone.