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Kali ini ingin dikongsi ialah tulisan Robert J. Elisberg, seorang penulis skrin dan kolumnis. Tulisan ini telah aku sunting serba sedikit. 

You Want to Write a Screenplay, Do You? 
One of the problem in screenwriting industry is that people who have no idea how to write, go and pay for a two-day seminar and suddenly think they have now learned how to be a screenwriter.

Not only have they likely wasted a great deal of money (which is their god-given right), but they'll go home, turn out heartfelt sludge and clog the already-clogged screenplay pipeline.

So, what is an aspiring writer to do? So many choices, oh-so little time.

Read and seek out mentors. But most of all, write. And write some more. And keep writing. Because the best way to learn about writing is by doing it.

You want to go to a seminar and spend a lot of cash money? Fine. Just do it with your eyes wide open, recognizing that what you are getting is the most cursory overview and merest of guidelines, not rules. And know that it won't turn you into  a writer. What it may do is provide you with a lit candle to help lead you through a pitch-dark, raging storm.

And with all that said, here finally is the very best writing advice I was ever given about writing. Ready?

Finish it!
 
That's the best advice. You can only have a story when you've finished it. Then, you can go back and make it better. But nothing happens until it's completed.

If at some point you realize the story is no good or just isn't worked, by all means listen to your good sense and stop. But when you're working on a story that's moving forward, don't keep tweaking, going back, rewriting, fixing, changing things, making revisions. That's why God created second drafts. But nothing happens until that first draft is completed.

So write. And for god's sake, finish.

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