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millionsmillions: A Quick Guide to Writing a Movie About a Writer: You are writing a movie about a writer. He is a great writer. He must be a great writer, the plot demands it. Here are a few necessary visual shortcuts. 1. Tweed, tattered sweaters, corduroy, maybe an old Army jacket. 2. Bouts of inopportune drunkenness. 3. A library with one of those sliding ladders or perilous stacks surrounding a stained mattress (throw in a dusty globe to suggest world-weariness). 4. Rub jaw or stroke beard. 5. Have writer tell a beautiful and supportive female character that she just doesn’t get it. More.

millionsmillions:

A Quick Guide to Writing a Movie About a Writer:

You are writing a movie about a writer. He is a great writer. He must be a great writer, the plot demands it. Here are a few necessary visual shortcuts.

1. Tweed, tattered sweaters, corduroy, maybe an old Army jacket.
2. Bouts of inopportune drunkenness.
3. A library with one of those sliding ladders or perilous stacks surrounding a stained mattress (throw in a dusty globe to suggest world-weariness).
4. Rub jaw or stroke beard.
5. Have writer tell a beautiful and supportive female character that she just doesn’t get it.

More.

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