It has no progression of increasingly important events, and merely reports life as it is, wallowing in the minutiae of relationships The history lesson. After years of research, the writer sets down all the facts of her great grandmother's trek westward in the nineteenth century. With loving labor, the writer records every detail of the voyage, faithfully listing the exact places, times, colors, and sounds. Unfortunately, the writer is letting facts get in the way of truth. Better to write a novel where this kind of detailed description adds to the texture of the event than a film where we are much more concerned with the unfolding of the events themselves.
All writers have a point of view.
We write because we have something to say about life. But we make a mistake when we try to hammer our political, social, or moral point of view into the heads of a movie audience. Better to create a world and an entertaining story in which your point of view can be felt by the audience than preach to them about what you believe they should think. Let's get back to that irritating bubble that is swelling up to become an idea. His book Screenwriting 101 will be released in September, 1999.