Penelope Maddy’s Workbench
Philosophical Screenwriting, ‘Pity the Poor Reader’, & Bedtime Stories
A writer’s world is often invisible from the outside unless they let you in. Sometimes when a sentence, paragraph, or essay strikes you as forceful or elegant, you might try to reverse engineer the author’s process. You try to articulate rules or ideas that shaped the author’s choices. Later on, if you speak with the writer, you might be humbled upon finding out you had no real clue how they do their thing.
