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Screenwriting

What's the hardest kind of writing?

What's harder to write:
1. Novels
2. Stage plays
3. Movie scripts
4. Scripts for episodic TV shows
5. Commercials
6. Print ads
7. News stories
8. Feature articles
9. Speeches
10. Stand-up routines
11. Poetry
12. Song lyrics

How many of the above types of writing have you tried?
  

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Any writing that requires the pen inserted anally.

- Bill
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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:1]What's harder to write: 1. Novels 2. Stage plays 3. Movie scripts 4. Scripts for episodic TV shows 5. Commercials 6. Print ads 7. News stories 8. Feature articles 9. Speeches 10. Stand-up routines 11. Poetry 12. Song lyrics[/nq]
Snow-writing. I always run out of steam around the middle of the second act.
jaybee
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[nq:1]What's harder to write: 1. Novels 2. Stage plays 3. Movie scripts 4. Scripts for episodic TV shows 5. Commercials ... Speeches 10. Stand-up routines 11. Poetry 12. Song lyrics How many of the above types of writing have you tried?[/nq]
Standup routines are way more difficult than the rest, imo.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and wri
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[nq:1]What's harder to write:[/nq]
13. Legal writing.

(Although, I'm proud to say, my brother and I once wrote a motion in Nebraska stating that the Nebraska state law was unconstitutional and that the residents of Nebraska charged with a traffic infraction had the right to a jury trial. And we were able to get the judge agree to that in open court. It was a **** of a motion.)
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10. Stand-up routines

I think this is probably the hardest, but I've never tried so not sure.
I've tried several of the above (not to good results or anything). Novels - you'd better have something to say and like to type. Haven't tried a stage play. Movie scripts - duh. I've tried an episodic/bible type thing - it went okay. I've written and filmed a commercial. Of course it was amat
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Almost always, whatever I'm working on at the moment. '-)

Caroline
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[nq:1]Almost always, whatever I'm working on at the moment. '-)[/nq]
This is the correct answer.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another
James M. Barrie
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[nq:1]What's harder to write: 1. Novels[/nq]
Too many words ...
... and so little time.
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I' ve been a journalist, feature writer, platinum lyricist, copywriter and struggling scriptwriter. They all have one thing is common: it's dead easy to fill up pages (although with lyrics, the quantity is not usually an issue). Making something worthwhile is not easy in any of them.
Now, having said that, the most difficult one is definitely...
... scriptwriting. The number of "things" yo
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[nq:1]I' ve been a journalist, feature writer, platinum lyricist, copywriter and struggling scriptwriter. They all have one thing is common: ... for a very particular form of writing. The ****** things are so long, too. My advice: give up now. M[/nq]
What's a "platinum lyricist" ?

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another
James M. Ba

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