Hello, my fellow screenwriters,
There's been a quiet, a deep, silent place I've been nesting in these past days, and am allowing this to inform where my writing, my ideas, and my career is gently telling me to go. Like in nature, right now, although the energy of the new year, 2026 = 1, is very much permeating us as individuals, as collectives, countries, the world...the universe...we are still in winter, still sleeping a bit, still resting.
There is a script waiting for me...but, it's not going anywhere, so, my share for this week:
Have you ever, or maybe just now, taken the plunge...into stillness...and honor what your script needs, because you as a creative need it? To leave it alone, just for a bit...
Do you feel this, and trust it, or do you resist it?
and...
If you have done so, how has this stillness, and "doing nothing" assisted you exponentially, in your scripts...and your career?
Paz : )
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Hi, Juliana Philippi. I've done that with scripts after writing them, script ideas, and outlines. It's helped me see things I didn't see before, come up with new ideas, and change things.
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That's actually how I've been dealing with Lunar Window's bottlenecks; they forced me to take a step back and do practically anything else (mostly exercising and then watching Boardwalk Empire), and then the fix would occur to me. Every single time it was because of a very small thing that would nonetheless have maximum impact (like a line of dialogue or a seemingly inconsequential action), so it was never obvious until the moment I had trouble lol. I wanted to write last night but held off because now I got the last bottleneck to sort out, a rewrite of the ending where I tie off a couple loose ends properly.
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Maurice Vaughan Exactly...I just did something totally new: I wrote a new outline for the second half of the script, trusted I knew, well, my "screenwriting self" knew, and now, it's flowing out. It's a creative process...we're really not supposed to control it all : )
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Banafsheh Esmailzadeh I love that!!! Yes! I go for jogs, and do yoga, and just stop "trying to make it happen", and all of a sudden, my intuition tells me "erase that whole scene, then it will make sense where you need to go". It is all about trusting the process, and really, getting out of my head. It's sometimes challenging, because as writers, it's so in our head, so " must be this, must be this"...but, when we let that go, and it's a real delicate balance...it's really astounding the amazing scripts that can come when you just stop putting deadlines and structured things for you to reach ( sometimes we need those, but sometimes...nope ).