Looking at Hollywood movies, you have to marvel at the fact that they were written by writers \u2013 people who presumably know a bit about writing. So how come they keep repeating the same erroneous clich\u00e9s?<\/p>\n
1. Movie writers use typewriters.<\/strong> Major characters in movies from Love, Actually<\/em> to As Good As It Gets<\/em> and many others bash away at typewriters. It\u2019s more romantic, I guess, but I know of no novelist who still uses a typewriter. Novelists use word processors, and have probably done so since the late 1980s. A few hard cases write by hand\u2026 but a typewriter? (If you know of ones who do, feel free to enlighten me.) Of course, all movie writers who do use word processors have Macs. Again, I suspect at least half would have a PC of some sort rather than a Mac. But be that as it may.<\/p>\n 2. When movie writers get to the end of the story, type THE END and sit back in triumph.<\/strong> In the next scene, they\u2019re off to post their manuscript\u2026 When a real writer gets to the end of the story, they know they\u2019re no more than halfway with the book. Movie writers don\u2019t seem to know about rewrites. And who posts manuscripts anyway in the age of email?<\/p>\n 3. In movies, even the possibility of publication is taken as a guarantee of riches.<\/strong> A while back, I saw a movie where the character gives up his job in America and goes to London because \u201ca UK publisher might<\/em> be interested in my novel\u2026\u201d Fool! Even if the book were to be published, you\u2019re not going to make enough money to give up your day job. I know many writers, but only one who manages to live off fiction. Some combine fiction writing with work for publishers, etc. Hardly any fiction writer can afford not to have another job. You probably know most of the exceptions by name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking at Hollywood movies, you have to marvel at the fact that they were written by writers \u2013 people who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}