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Screenwriting concentrates more alphas - by nature, adaptation or attrition - than any other group of writers. While we collaborate with other professionals in the course of movie-making, we tend to eat our young rather than nurture them and rather boast among each other of the bones with which teeth are picked than discard them. Likely, it's Hollywood treasure which stokes the usual writerly sense of being frauds uncaught into fear of any who might expose us. Cue flaming egos.
On the other hand, in reality most screenwriters wrestle as much with their craft as anyone, and would love to improve it by analysis and discussion. We'll discuss our work with those we trust and tend to cultivate whoever gives notes which improve our game.
Mindful of this screenwriter's ying and yang, this thread is raised as a lightening-rod in hope of channeling some of the peculiarly arcing quest for dominance and so insulate and enliven other discussions.
As an inaugural, LA is a good example of a contentious topic whenever screenwriters meet.
If living there was ever essential, has it become a fool's fire obscuring other roads into the industry?
You are invited to debate vigorously.
On the other hand, in reality most screenwriters wrestle as much with their craft as anyone, and would love to improve it by analysis and discussion. We'll discuss our work with those we trust and tend to cultivate whoever gives notes which improve our game.
Mindful of this screenwriter's ying and yang, this thread is raised as a lightening-rod in hope of channeling some of the peculiarly arcing quest for dominance and so insulate and enliven other discussions.
As an inaugural, LA is a good example of a contentious topic whenever screenwriters meet.
If living there was ever essential, has it become a fool's fire obscuring other roads into the industry?
You are invited to debate vigorously.
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