Just for some personal bio, I've been writing since I was quite young, but before it was mainly novels and short story's. As of the last four years, it's been mostly screenplays. And I love writing, that's a disease I'm plagued with.
Until recently, I had been doing the writing solely by myself. Now, a close friend of mine -- someone who has a great taste for what works and what doesn't -- joined board with me to write a screenplay for a film we'll be making in due time. His style of writing has similarities to mine, but his approach was different:
.We had to do a number of scenes that were very dark, very dismal in every sense. He would lock himself in a room, drink profusely, and eventually reach a near suicidal stage where he'd be so close to the characters' lives that the words would ring so true to nature that it would work better that I imagined it could.
I noticed that many actors have their method acting approach, but then thought: the sane goes for writers do, does it not?
Have any of you tapped into screenwriting with a similar approach? Struck me as dangerous but emotionally true.
Until recently, I had been doing the writing solely by myself. Now, a close friend of mine -- someone who has a great taste for what works and what doesn't -- joined board with me to write a screenplay for a film we'll be making in due time. His style of writing has similarities to mine, but his approach was different:
.We had to do a number of scenes that were very dark, very dismal in every sense. He would lock himself in a room, drink profusely, and eventually reach a near suicidal stage where he'd be so close to the characters' lives that the words would ring so true to nature that it would work better that I imagined it could.
I noticed that many actors have their method acting approach, but then thought: the sane goes for writers do, does it not?
Have any of you tapped into screenwriting with a similar approach? Struck me as dangerous but emotionally true.