Tyler Mowery has a new video Tuesday where a friend of his, Ryan,
tried to write a script in seven days and “failed”.
(This video links to Ryan’s and embeds much of Ryan’s in a frame
partition).
Tyler gives a pep talk here, and says it is a lot about
self-concept and self-motivation (this sounds a lot like what John Fish says in
his videos about personal achievement in general). Tyler says many new screenwriters
have trouble starting the “middle” of a script and then starting the “end”
also.
In other words, it’s the middle section (like in a music
ternary form) that is a problem, more maybe the development section of a Sonata
structure. I could imagine a situation
where going between two characters in an exposition could be a problem (like
going between the first two scenes within one Act of an opera). For example, in a video from 2017, John Fish
described (and films in aftermath) an auto accident when he was a teen driver (caused
by another distracted driver) and plays music where the transition to the
second theme in the Beethoven Fifth occurs with the crash.
I raise the question as to whether it helps to have a treatment
first, and a detailed plot with characters and incidents, Wikipedia style,
written first. I encourage outlining
your plot in detail in Microsoft Access and setting up keys to check for plot
holes and inconsistencies programmatically (with SQL).
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