Week 2 – What does a screenwriter do?

In the Hollywood of the past, the screenwriter’s job mostly consisted of sitting at a typewriter, chain-smoking, and producing script after script for the studios. Mostly, they were guns-for-hire, churning out whatever assignment they were handed; auterism was reserved for writer-directors, many of whom remained fascinated with the same stories, characters, and aesthetics throughout theirContinue reading “Week 2 – What does a screenwriter do?”