looking for the heart of saturday night

ARRRRGGGHHH!

Suffering from writer's block when you need to write promotional copy just sucks.
I'm trying to come up with that perfectly crafted single paragraph that encapsulates the film, and it is just eluding me. Totally. I come up with great descriptive words, hackneyed phrases, and incomplete sentences. This is like trying to take that perfectly-framed photograph when you just can't seem to get it in focus.

I've read and re-read the script, in English and Hindi, dozens of times now. I can practically recite it, if pressed. But I can't find the flowery, evocative prose that I need. For inspiration I look to Henry Miller, one of my favorite authors, who summed up writing as "laying bricks". You can't build a wall if you stand there thinking about it too long; you just need to start laying brick after brick. Lay bricks long enough and you might end up with that novel or screenplay or ad copy you were intending to build--or you might not, but at least you're working.

So I'm stuck, and that's all there is to it. I think I need to recharge myself with some serious reading before I try to commit something to paper again. Check out some of these inspirational links I've trolled if you're in the same boat:

Writers on Writing http://bit.ly/4t37cs

Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Word Stuff http://bit.ly/7gwHy9

The man who invented the Hollywood schlock machine. - By Paul Collins - Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/5JuctO



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