Playwriting Education Starts With Ater

Playwriting education begins with ater. Playwrights have this intuitive, organic process that they have developed over time in play writing. But when they start to read books and seek mendorship about screen writing, if they don't find the right person, they will often be taught this extremely intellectual, very conscious brained approach which is based on reverse engineering great movies. The best t v shows are all about character. That's true whether you are writing a block buster popcorn movie like top gun maverick or coda. This is what we do as screen writers, just like it's what we doas playwrights, right? Our job is to find a character, step