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A hard truth that everybody in art must know. Well said, Tyler.

It's true, as a sculptor the first things I had to learn were very basic geometric shapes and could only move on once I had these down perfectly. I also take several weeks for one piece. It really influenced the way i approach other arts.

I fell victim to this when I though my first script was going to be a masterpiece. But instead I got a 4/10 from the blacklist. I will learn everyday to get better so I can be a 10/10 writer.

Videogame creation is the same. For some strange reason, the majority of aspiring game developers I meet, seem to think it's all or nothing. They look to magnum opus on their idea and bristle when I say, "do something simple, first. Make Pong, make Pac-man, make Space Invaders. You learn SO MUCH from actually going through the ENTIRE process! Finishing is the BEST education you can get."

In 2011 I made my first short movie, entered it into a few festivals, and it won 4th place (out of a field of 13) so I was happy at the time. During the decade since I have learned far more than I knew back then (partly due to great KZfaq channels like this one). I am now writing the script for my 2nd movie which I know will do better than my first simply because I now know that my first movie is rather embarrassing.

You are one of the best KZfaq channels for providing writing advices

This channel deserves to be so much bigger. Thanks for all the support 🙏🏾

Screenwriting isn’t an art form it’s an invitation to collaborate on an art form!

Understanding the basics is very important because when you master the fundamentals you will know how to strengthen your story before you dialogue it!!!

I wish I heard this 11 years ago. It took me stumbling around and learning craft over and over and writing more and more books to learn this main point. Now I enjoy the passion of craft.

I LOVE, absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE how you tell us to write bad scripts! I tell myself so often to make bad art. If I'm choosing between making bad art or making no art then I choose to make bad art every time. The pressure of the magnum opus masterpiece game changer causes paralysis of analysis. And often time it's not actually bad art. It's just not what you envisioned. Let go of expectations and just make the art. One day you'll look at a piece and think "damn I made that?!" Every day you make art is a victory

This one tickled me. Very well stated. Thank you for letting people know that overnight success isn’t always automatic.

This perspective is so important, and makes me think of something someone said in relation to art which was "Draw with expression, not expectation." I try to think of that with drafting, too

Tyler eases the chaotic mind and guides us to dae way

I hate how much I needed to hear this... Back to the grind!

To carry the metaphor further, most sculptors begin with a drawing, then a maquette (a scaled-down version or a rough draft), before starting on their "masterpiece."

Fantastic reminder of developing through the process and the necessity of building continuously starting where we’re currently at

The artist has an idea what they want the giant rock to look like, but it isn’t till they start chipping away at it they can discover what it actually turns out like, hopefully better then what they imagined. Its the exact same for screenplays imo.

I guess this is why people advise doing in-universe short stories. Going over drafts, and tossing them out as fodder for community review allows us to "fail faster".

I really liked the comparison to sculpting.

I am delighted that you covered the struggles of artists, many thanks Mr. Mowery

Only Legends had seen one take , not animated version of this Video

Your thumbnail caught my eye, great job!

Makes sense. I also believe that best is to practice on short stories. Get the feel of the writing Arena. Work on short stories, release that, then work on other short/longer stories. After that, then work on your main game, cuz while you're working on th big guns. People will already know you better and you in turn will know who the audiences for your screenplay or novel are and you'll able to craft your book better accordingly, cuz you'll have the knowledge of the craft and the audience. With that You'll have a much higher chance to set your golden book on the spot you dreamed of. ✨👍🏾

Some of the things a book needs to be good. Theme, Character, Moral imperative, Inner conflict, Outer conflict, Believable premise, Unique or powerful voice, Classic prose structure, Immersive description, setting, plot, sub-plot, Excellent pacing, Mood, Excellent sentence structure/paragraph structure/ chapter structure/ story structure, Hook, Beginning/middle/end, plot twist( if necessary) which has to have subtle clue stung into the previous sections, tension, drama, dramatic question, side characters, *God help you if you're writing comedy*, Word rhythm, cadence, 3 dimensional characters, Mentor, Meet the goddess, emotional entering state, Emotional exiting state, Build-up, anticipation, subversion, Dialogue, Context/Subtext/Text, Character growth, Character change, Character perception, World rules, World views, Research into whatever type of social order you want to use, Grammar, Punctuation, and then and only then may you begin your first draft, followed by a second draft, and then the third draft, then pay someone good money to line edit, then complete a fourth draft, then find beta readers, then make a fifth draft put the draft in a box and come back to read it three months later to see if you like it, then go over and polish the draft before making your final draft, then send it out to the publishing houses and let them help you develop thick skin with a nice layering of rejection letters(If you're lucky enough to get them) until you find that one publisher who is willing to publish your book, Get an advance that will be given to your five years later while they promote your book, then have that book not sell enough to buy you a cup of coffee, then sit down and do it all over again. Why? Because you're a fucking writer and none of the aforementioned things even come close to dissuading you from writing.

What a reality check. I needed to hear that. Thank you.

Thanks for this video. Months ago I wrote a short screenplay for a short film I’m making, and I’ve recently started to dislike how it went, and I even felt like didn’t want to film it anymore. But this video taught me that I should begin filming it. If it turns out good, great, if doesn’t turn out good, at least I get some experience from it and will learn how to do better.

YOU JUST CURED MY ANXIETY ABOUT WRITING😭😂THANK U!

No shortcuts, we gotta put in the work💪🔥🔥

I'm up to my neck in online college, yet I still try to write everyday. Even if it's some half-baked idea, I still make the attempt.

Well said and articulated. Thank you so much, I think you just sparked something for me.💡

What would you say are the simplest stories to write to start learning the fundamentals of writing? what would be the best examples? what would you recommend for each story to have in its simplest form? Besides having 1 main character only, how many secondary characters, subplots, antagonists, etc? You honestly touched me with this video because you mentioned something that is completely true, completely obvious, and somehow I was completely oblivious to it, so I'm here asking what would you think are the perfect beginner's stories to write to start honing down the fundamentals?

Thank you, Tylor. I was disappointed that my book isn't popular. I

Another channel "InDepthCinema" (cinematography rather than screenwriting) also has a great video on this. His example being traditional sushi, and how it can take years of cooking rice before even touching the fish. In other words time develops one's craft. It's a hard truth but necessary to becoming good at something.

As a drawer, I can tell I agree with this. The first thing you do will not be a masterpiece. It's been said quality over quantity. But if you don't practice in every possible way, you can't improve. You have to move forward and not be stuck into something. If you now know how to do something, then now you do something you don't know how to do.

This guy is so underrated

I don't agree with this. I got into writing because of a story idea I wanted to write and read, so I started to learn how to write. I didn't want to become a writer and so then started to come up with ideas. No, it's because of this one idea I really wanted to express that propelled me to learn how to write and to get better. Everything about my craft is built from this. All my other ideas suck or at least I just don't want to work on them. This one idea is going to be my magnum opus (if I get that lucky) because that's what the plan was. Just because it's my first doesn't mean it's going to suck or I should settle. With each new draft of this idea, I apply new things I've learned and make it better each time. You can do that with writing. You can hit delete and start over all day long and for years. If you have a really good idea, you should keep going until you believe it's perfect. That's not to say you shouldn't write other ideas for practice or to help you learn how to write other stories, but you definitely shouldn't give up on that one that is really special to you and that got you into writing in the first place. Everything is built from this one special idea and you only get one shot to break into this industry (publishing or screenwriting) because people aren't going to give you a second chance and say "try again next year," so your first has to be good, the best it can be. You have to come into the game already as a master, not as an amateur trying to be one because the gatekeepers of this game are putting up a lot of money for you and need to have a lot of faith in you, so you better be the best you can be, or else it doesn't make sense. With every other art, you can have people (and the world) see you progress. You can post it on instagram and other social media and people can watch you "get better." No one has to buy any of your stuff until you strike lightning with them. People will always give you another shot because they know most art is a skill. With writing, people usually don't give you another shot. You either suck and made people cringe and they don't want to read it anymore, because there are so many other things to do with their time. That's the thing, it takes TIME to read a story or watch a movie and television show, so people aren't going to waste that on just anyone. A picture or statue takes a second to look at -- it's not like that with writing. You have to come into the game as a master. Your first work definitely has to be the best because it shows you have what it takes and can enter the arena, so that people can put thousands, if not millions of dollars behind you. I usually agree with your videos, but not this one. Advice for beginners should be to keep practicing and if it's on one story, then that's fine. It's better to devote all your time to perfecting one story than it is to attempt and perfect ten other different ones at the same time.

Another thing is is that the masters of arts today have amazing artwork, but nobody remembers the bad artwork, so that might help if you're ever worried about what people will think: nobody will remember your mistakes as long as you continue to improve.

Almost spot on.

Great video! Every master was once a beginner.

Excelente consejo!!

Make a video about, some comfortable screenwriting softwares Cause I don't know which one is perfect for me

Can u pls make a video on ur daily routine as screenwriter

It's Really worth to be ur subscriber

Tyler: Harsh advice but pretty solid as usual.

I agree with this statement in many ways. But I have a question: Aren't drafts exactly for gaining experience to truly understand storytelling? I mean, in a way, writing a "magnum opus" at first is going to take years and many drafts, in which case a greater and greater understanding of the fundamentals of story is gotten, thus, start with a complicated craft was the right decision. Not saying is set in stone, but I think it's worth pointing out. Still, like I said, I agree with what you said; and kudos for aknowledging a topic no one else has done.

Yay new video

Can you make a video about Story by Robert McKee? I would like to know your point of view on his teachings and rules. Thank you very much

In short, this is about expectation.

Where did you get those cool looking movie posters behind you if I may ask?

Damn good

Great advice, what's the name of the song at the end of the video, it sounds inspiring?

Please make a video on Structure of Screenplay exclusively for Short Film Almost all filmmakers start with a short film not feature so this video is necessary for me as well as many people

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How will you actually write your screenplay for a hyperlink film

Anybody else think of the Spongebob episode when reading this title?

You can't effectively practice screenwriting if there is no one shooting what you write.

How can you practise core writing fundamentals in writing scene work (writing scenes that shift ) Obviously I'd prefer not write a whole script but I worry I cant establish core fundamentals in a 1000 to 2000 words and how long is that screenplay form. Help!!

Hey! I had a comment on this video. Why did you reupload it?

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Art and Fear: “1000 pots.“ “Pencil mileage” “Practice”

Just in time for nano

The problem with what you say about Picasso is who the 'we' are in 'why WE remember him as a great painter.' It doesn't matter in the least all the 'we', or what 'we' think. It only really matters what other artists, and people who invest a lot of time in looking at and studying painting. (And that may not include all critics and art historians). 'We' 'like' and 'respect' Picasso because 'we' are repeatedly told to. (I loathe the moment when the teacher parades her young students through a museum and says, "Now look at this masterpiece," everything that follows after is meaningless bunk, the students know it. What they're really learning is how authority can tell everyone else what to think even if they haven't a clue. This is why more people grow up to be cogs instead of artists.) Almost everything Picasso did is important and key to his oeuvre (sorry for using the fancy term) and instructive. Anyone can understand Picasso all by themselves if they have the opportunity. One of the most important Picasso exhibitions I saw were about a hundred of his Minotaur drawings. He probably drew each of them in less than ten minutes. Anyone spending any amount of time with these can see how with each one he's playing with the lines to get an effect. In the next one he tweaks it another way, to make it 'pop' out or 'bulge' or give the viewer the visceral feeling of a body twist. And there's a randomness to it as well. Picasso had incredible skill, but he used this not to repeat the exact same line, but to randomly vary it within whatever limitation kept it from not representing the subject. And he numbered them so in the future we could follow his process and thinking. I suppose in writing where you'd notice something like this might be by watching all the episodes of West Wing that Aaron Sorkin wrote or at least outlined. (I'm not sure to what degree he was involved with the entire series). This is much much more difficult to delineate than with Picasso because so many different people are involved. It would be highly instructive. But you should be able to figure out how Sorkin works a scene and why he set the scene up in the first place. Maybe someone should go through his work and see how he handles similar situations. You'd have to codify scenes into types to do this. Warning: When you get too close to the Gods they are all very common and repetitious. Even Shakespeare. Forgive them their limitations. The reason for this is they use the same tricks over and over again- as did Picasso. They work, so use them again, trying something a bit different each time. And who of us wouldn't mercilessly rip off the "You can't handle the truth!" scene if they could make it different enough to pull it off? And your main point to get to work and instead of aiming at the stars, work on the key elements is rock solid advice. I love scenes where I really don't care about the characters, don't know what's going on (I just turned on the TV) and yet I get sucked into a scene. My absolute favorite was I flipped on the TV one afternoon and a familiar British actor was dictating a letter to his secretary, who I didn't recognize. It's a mundane letter, "I'm getting married, will take a week off for a honeymoon, please move any appointments, blah blah blah" and then you notice the secretary is suffering, she's completely destroyed. It was Greer Garson. This is not an example of writing so much as acting (this is my ramble and no one's going to read it anyway). The movie was A Strange Interlude - a potboiler that centers around amnesia. However by watching it from that point it was amazing. Lesson? In just about everything there is a lesson, too often a lesson about what not to do, but sometimes a great moment. The 'B' directors surfed on including a few great things in movies that should've been forgettable. Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino cherry picked these great lessons from often bad movies (and great movies too.) This is why Tarantino is always going on about movies that when you see them at best you're annoyed. (That's different than the Stephen King praise quote that appears on just about every published book of the past ten years. That's just: The emperor waves at everyone.) Orson Welles was hanging out with Sam Arkoff after shooting days. Arkoff asked him how come he's not directing anymore. 'No one will back me." "Arkoff said, "I'll back you. I've got a stack of scripts. Read through them, pick anyone you want." "I'm too lazy. What's the worst one?" "It's a real stinker about drug dealers on the border." What Welles then did was to apply the fundamentals and a few new things (like super wide angle lenses) turning a bad script into a masterpiece. Hope if anyone has read this far they don't feel they've wasted their time.

You are very mature to even want to encourage your subscribers to think realistically. You could have easily hyped us up with false hope to increase your followers' devotion to you and not to mastering the fundamentals. A lesser person would push false hope of instant success "if you just watch one more of my videos." You have integrity. It's like the polar opposite of like Trump University.

Keep doing

Writing has been high effort low reward for.me. i can't think of any reason to pick up again

😂🤣 as a sculptor I can tell you that's not true. Every artist starts off thinking they are a genius who just has to make the art. Step 1 Make the Art. Step 2.... Step 3 Profit! But you are right. Real artists go through this delusion and kill it. Then they do a whole crap ton of work and MAYBE one of their pieces will be recognized. Maybe after your death. Video is a great comment and a very true message. Good for noobs to hear. You have to walk before you run, you have to stand before you walk, you have to crawl before you stand.

You know how you get to Carnegie Hall, dontch'a? Practise.

Speed.

Are you still reading scripts Tyler

Inb4 sinixgang

Draw like a painter Paint like a sculptor Write like a sculptor So sculpt like a writer?

The Jordan Peterson on screenwriting

Thank you very much, I needed it! Now I want to finish my first fu**ing feature script