Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 by Lew Hunter

Author:Lew Hunter [Hunter, Lew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2004-05-03T22:00:00+00:00

4. Where to Write

When I’m developing story, I like to use a pad and pencil so that process can occur in any invigorating place.

When I’m into script, I can write anywhere I happen to be. I used to need every grain of sand in place on the Mojave Desert before I could get down to writing. I then instructed my children, “When Daddy’s writing, no one is to bother him unless they are on fire and can’t beat out the flames with one hand.”

My work on television series arrested this isolationist, dilettante posture. The pages had to be gotten to or written on the set. No time for the muse.

Mark Twain best liked to write in bed. Hemingway stood at a tall desk. Six-foot-five Thomas Wolfe also stood, writing on top of an icebox, then throwing the longhand pages into a pickle barrel for his secretary to collect and type. Some writers like to pace a large room. Dorothy Parker said all she needed “is room to lay my hat and a few friends.” Oscar-winner Dalton Trumbo only wrote at night, in a filled bathtub with a board spanning the porcelain sides to support his manual typewriter.

Whether it’s bathtubs, beds, bars, football fields, a sarcophagus, it makes zero difference. Wherever you are, wherever you can, write and write on!

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