My first screenplay efforts were as marked up and messy as the door of a public men s room in Compton. Because I was a struggling writer, I couldn't afford to have my writing proofed. It wasn't a pretty sight. Yet, I stubbornly defied logic and forged on. Then, after a good deal of ink, sweat and tears, I realized that my screenplays were utter drech.
Screenplays are all about simple-minded plots that are easy to make visual.
Screenplays aren t about subtle or interior dialogue about engrossing language. Then, too, all my nasty, lefty idealism got in the way. Nobody wants a woman hero. In short, I got slammed harder and more often than the backboard at a Lakers game. I stuck persistently to my screenwriting vision despite infinite rejection and that nagging feeling that I didn't really want to write screenplays.