tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post7196404793826283512..comments2024-02-05T10:41:31.777-05:00Comments on I Saw Lightning Fall: Wech on Less Script, More StoryLoren Eatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-21131405326309281752011-05-11T11:44:12.475-04:002011-05-11T11:44:12.475-04:00Wait, are you suggesting that good old Gilbert Kei...Wait, are you suggesting that good old Gilbert Keith might have rambled a bit?<br /><br />Yeah, I've been reading Gaiman's updates about the <i>Doctor Who</i> episode. I think they've changed it on him about a dozen times. I remember him saying in an interview that film (including television) is an incredibly frustration medium in which to work because a writer has so little creative control.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-13592342808604725342011-05-10T10:53:57.369-04:002011-05-10T10:53:57.369-04:00More reputably, Neil Gaiman had this problem (appa...More reputably, Neil Gaiman had this problem (apparently) when working on his script for the coming weekend's episode of the wonderful English Fairy-Tale-flavored SF show Doctor Who. Not surprisingly, given that this is the author of American Gods, his original draft had a few more amusing diversions than could fit into a tightly-scripted 43 minutes of television. Equally unsurprisingly, some of these showed off how well he could get the voice of these characters.<br /><br />Fortunately, he posted at least one short scene online. (Background: yes the titular Doctor has a "Sonic Screwdriver," which opens locks, reprograms cell phones, and generally does a whole lot of things that traditional screwdrivers don't.)<br /><br /><br />http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/08/turned-up-to-eleven.htmlChestertonian Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01550643992523840950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-53954372526283680322011-05-10T10:52:55.444-04:002011-05-10T10:52:55.444-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chestertonian Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01550643992523840950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-36254399149273988202011-05-10T10:35:48.314-04:002011-05-10T10:35:48.314-04:00Interesting. I've recently taken the foolhardy...Interesting. I've recently taken the foolhardy leap of writing a short screenplay--or, more precisely, adapting it, from a G.K. Chesterton short story. (What else would I adapt, after all?) So far I managed to condense the first seven pages of small text in a hardback volume into four double-spaced pages, which means that I ended with 1/4 the text I started with.<br /><br />It helps that people in Austin, TX (the new setting) are a bit less verbose than British gents of the 1920's, but it certainly was an exercise in Kill My Darlings. (Well, Kill Chesterton's Darlings.) It's good to know that my scenes are about the right length, though.Chestertonian Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01550643992523840950noreply@blogger.com