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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month One: Brainstorming a story

August 13th, 2007 | 2 min read

By Keith E. Buhler

I confessed in my last post that I wanted to write a screenplay, and why. But I had a problem: Having friends in the film department at Biola, I knew I was not "a film person." And frankly, I did not want to become one of the many people I knew where were always "working on something," but never finishing anything. Full of fear that the creative process would be aborted before it reached full term, I held back from starting.

I never took the right film classes, I know just as little as the next guy about the real world of film-making. I do know little about story, and a little about script-writing, when it comes to philosophical dialogues or stage plays. So I found myself in the predicament of wanting to contribute to the new literary pool, but having a steep learning curve to hurdle before doing so.

I wrote a short-film script (ten pages) and several ideas, and waited for my screenwriting skills to magically develop.

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