Why is writing a script so fucking hard?

Tolkien went to Oxford

Your lack of social interaction makes it difficult for you to write how people talk and interact.

this and OP most likely is a fucking retard

Have a story that needs to be told. Let's imagine that you are super interested in the life of Werner von Braun (inventor of the V2 rocket and grandfather of space travel.) Well, the script writes itself. What parts of his life are you most interested in? What achievements most defined him? Is it worth throwing in some rival inventors / scientists / etc so we know what the state of the art was at the time? How about juxtaposing the time he met and shook hands with Hitler, promising a rocket superweapon, then less than twenty years later meeting and shaking hands with Kennedy, promising him a space program?

Start with a real life story or a biopic like this one. Do a treatment - not a full script, but a 4 - 5 page long summary of what is going to be in this movie. Someone should be able to read the treatment and figure out how much it will cost to produce this film, how many actors and speaking roles will be needed, what kind of sets and locations are required etc. This will get you into the habit of justifying every element in the movie. If you have a five minute opening with just the main character talking to his girlfriend, why is it in there? Does it establish him as a character? Do we get to see his hopes and dreams? How about the action sequences, fast parts, slow parts etc?

Only after you have a good treatment which establishes the tone and what kind of movie this is (Family friendly fun? A slick heist movie? Oscar bait?) should you even start to work out exactly who is saying what in which scene.

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If you already have a plot then maybe just get a microphone and record yourself as different character saying their dialogue and then transcribe it and then edit it down to the base points.

>page 121 show that it was all a dream

>Structure
As In an outline?

What about characters, should they be defined/outlined as well first?

if it's not fun to do, it's not for you.

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Dude didn't slip out the womb and into Oxford, though.

Exactly. What you write doesn’t matter at all. As long as you subvert expectations. Remember themes are for 8th grades book reports

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What kind if scripts do you write? Also what OS? It isn't that hard but you might want to start with something easier like C#.

>As In an outline?
Yes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_treatment
Also that blog post I linked earlier talks about it. Start by filling in the blanks on a simple outline like this:

1. Protagonist finds out about a problem: _______
2. Reluctant at first, then embarks on the journey to ______.
3. A major complication in the journey is caused by ______.
4. Hero at lowest point because ______.
5. The hero solves the problem by ______.

For a character arc, you introduce a character flaw in #1 and resolve the flaw by #5.

>movie opens with von Braun shaking hands with hitler
>movie ends with von Braun shaking hands with Kennedy
>the camera captures von Braun giving a wry smile seemingly to nobody
>fade to black
KINO

kys