Which part do you find the most tedious to work on?

Every thing

else comes pretty easy to me and is really fun to write but my dialog always needs serious revision.
When I get an idea it all comes at once, from beginning to end and most of the peices in the middle. It's just a matter of refining them and getting them all to work, moving in the same powerful way.

I guess after dialog I would have to say expressing a strong theme.
I know my stories have one, I think about theme, I worry about theme, many of my scenes explore some type of issue, I have something to say but it's really hard for me to nail it down in one concise sentence.

I would have to say rewrites. Like when you write 120 pages and realize that your script is nothing like you originally wanted to write. So then you have to make major story changes, most likely in the second act which changes the third completely.

This is a hard question for me to answer. Because there's a certain kind of dialogue I do well and that's very easy for me (comedic). But the kind of screenplays I like to write (dramatic), the dialogue is the hardest part for me. And I write them differently. I outline my dramatic screenplays first and just write the comedic ones from the beginning... Odd, I know.

not sure but i guess it fits under plot. when i get an idea it's usual just perfect. the start and the finish. and all the great lines and scenes i've thought of to fill it up. the problem is all those ideas can not add up to 120 pages, so filling in the gaps becomes tough and frustrating. and sometimes discouraging. i would like to make every word of the script killer, but sometimes i find myself adding in filler.

Actually, I find background characterization the most tedious of all to record and always leave it for inclusion in the first or second edit. I hate it, and I know that it should be in the outline firsthand, but I can't even think of a character's history until I'm force to do so.

World building in supernatural fiction, or what my be stated as the physical environment. Oh, this gives me headaches, and I feel so sorry for fantasy writers, who have to delve into the archaic, but we sci-fi writers have to get our society, chemestry, biology, geography, physics, astronomy, and all the other tech gadetry going smoothly or we flat fail to suspend disbelief.

Dialogue is a cinch, as is plot and extended character thoughts and narrative.

Tri

The middle of the script is the toughest for me. Like someone else said, it's the gaps in between all those great ideas that stop me up. In the beginning and the end you have a lot of checkpoints to go by, but in the middle there is a whole 60 pages that need filling.

Steph

Even if I have a full outline infront of me, I still take the most time writting the first 10 pages. It just seems like I sit in front of my computer trying to decide what word to type next. But after that I get in a groove and just keep writting.

Ragnarok said:

I really don't enjoy writing certain transitions between scenes. Like those when we skip a few weeks/months. It's not always easy to give a feel of the time that passed. Or also when the characters have to go to another place. In movies, they're often seen getting out of their car or there's a bunch of people walking around the entrance to building the characters have to enter before we see them appear. It's a pain to be fresh.

What about you?

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I make people grow beards, change weather conditions, change clothing for weather, bring certain animals out. In RAY we knew it was spring not becuase RayChrales said it was but, becuase the writer included the scene with a huming bird.

I think you just have to focus on this shortcoming and make it your strength.

scripter1 said:

else comes pretty easy to me and is really fun to write but my dialog always needs serious revision.
When I get an idea it all comes at once, from beginning to end and most of the peices in the middle. It's just a matter of refining them and getting them all to work, moving in the same powerful way.

I guess after dialog I would have to say expressing a strong theme.
I know my stories have one, I think about theme, I worry about theme, many of my scenes explore some type of issue, I have something to say but it's really hard for me to nail it down in one concise sentence.

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my dialog sucks too but I go into it knowing that fact so the 1st draft is like my good action skeleton then my dialog becomes like organs and muscle. Last draft and evaluation from peers is skin.

Bleh, for me, it's usually the beginning. Usually I can come up with a cool middle and end, but the beginning is usually the part I have trouble with. I have a hard time figuring out how to make interesting, without being too boring, and at the same time, make it serve the rest of the story (essentially, character introductions, but again, how to make it not boring lol).

I've been attempting to brainstorm many ideas, some are feasible, but others are just way out there lol. But yeah, usually I have a hard time trying to make it interesting and still serve the storyline for the movie.

Plot usually isn't a problem for me otherwise, as I tend to brainstorm a ton of ideas and concepts all the time, and it just sort of gradually merges together to form a semi-cool story. It's the small details that get me hehe, since I usually like to think big, "see the big picture first", if you will.

I think it's trying to manifest in a script, the depth and great ideas that roll around my brain. Dialog is real problem. What I hear the character's say in my brain, just doesn't work out on the page.


Then there's that place where I get stuck in a knot and can't see to find the best, intersting way to solve or show something.

Jennifer