From Courtroom Battles to Captivating Stories: Vincent Scarsella’s Unexpected Journey Revealed
Vincent Scarsella
I just try to tell a story. I mean, I just don’t get into the arc and it bogs me down when I start thinking about that. So, I’m trying to build a world that the viewer or reader can get into and believe it really exists and then have a good plot. And again, I think it comes from reading science fiction and crime where plot was so important, but yet the good writers, the really good writers knew how to create characters to be in those plots. And that’s what I try to do. I try to tell a good story. And whether you’re writing a brief, a legal brief or a court, which I used to do in one point in my life, you’re there to tell a story or when you’re doing a trial. And I was a trial lawyer, you have a jury, that’s your readers, that’s your people. You have to build a story to them so they can understand. And so that’s my approach. And so, there’s a certain style that you have to use when you format a play or screenplay. And I wasn’t very good at that. And in fact, some of your assessment people had mentioned that, too flowery in my scene descriptions and so forth. So, I’ve cut that down and learned from that and from reading other scripts as well. And so the how-to books, yes, some of them, I was reading a lot of them early on in my writing career, if you want to call it that. But lately I haven’t. I just don’t, I write, I’d rather spend that time writing. And maybe as you get older, you’re seeing a limited timeframe ahead of you. So, you better get to work.
