Erik Bork

An excellent quote from Steven Sorderbergh in Slate: "The hardest thing in the world is to be good and clear, because sometimes in order to be clear, you become obvious. And when you’re obvious, you’re not good. So that is a lifelong sort of process, figuring out on each project, given its intentions and its demands, how to make it good and clear. Being obscure is easy. It’s easy to make something that is elliptical and sort of difficult to grasp and sort of fob it off on being artistic, and if you don’t understand it, that’s your problem." Anyone writing genre deals with this every day-- especially if it's trying to be more. Very well put.

I consult on screenplays. More than half have the same issue - you can see it in the logline: no clear GOAL or no OBSTACLE. No rules, sure, but stories get easier when you lock your STORY DNA: HERO. GOAL. OBSTACLE. STAKES. Save money! Don't hire a consultant. Just fix DNA

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