Marilyn Horowitz on... WRITING

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I would say that if you have no idea what you want to write about, but you do want to write then we've got something, all right? A couple of ways we can approach this. One is, usually when people want to write they have something they want to write about. So I would ask the person, "Do you keep a journal? And if you keep a journal, what do you write about mostly?"
Are you writing down what you eat? Are your girlfriends making you miserable? Are you complaining about your parents? Ironically, whatever's bothering us in life makes great dramatic material.

Marilyn Horowitz, the author of "How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks" and creator of The Horowitz System™, is an award-winning university teacher, a producer, a screenwriter, a script consultant and a successful writing coach. Her students include published novelists, screenwriters and award-winning filmmakers. Her website is: http://www.ScreenplayClass.com

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[13Elphaba13]

This is sooo true for writers. Keeping a journal is extremely helpful for authors, and is needed to observe life.