51 | Vanessa Taylor On Non-Verbal Storytelling Secrets
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Adapting a Book or TV Show?
I just find that putting in too many other elements to that first draft whether it be word smithing or the extensive research it just bogs me down. You can always go back and fix it after the fact I'd rather do some research do as much as I sort of can reasonably in a short period of time and then get into kind of more of a flow of the thing. And so I really look to see like what does this material kind of want to be maybe in the form of whatever you're doing a feature or TV show whatever like it takes on. When I get submitted things that could easily be adapted. It doesn't feel very interesting because you feel like well anyone could do
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