“I am working through the outline for my screenplay adaptation of “Great Falls, Virginia!” Very happy with the way it’s coming along. And yes, your input was helpful in structuring it – emotionally.
I am finding it much easier to decide what scenes are necessary and can stand alone, what plot points can be woven together into one scene to move along the story, and how to let the characters and/or the setting tell the story through atmosphere and actions rather than just words.
Also, rethinking the main character’s journey through how her feelings and thoughts drive her choices produces a much more compelling scene than just arbitrarily moving your character through a scene like a piece of furniture, achieving an arc of movement from Point A to Point B with dialogue being used as the modus operandi for getting the character to the end of it all.”
