Inside Hollywood’s Turmoil: Is JJ Abrams’ Decline the Death Knell for Screenwriting’s Future?
The answer to this one wasn’t as simple. I suppose there are differences in which genres have the best chance at selling. But that always changes. The genres that have been left behind very well may be the ones you want to write five years from now.
The one key change that you can latch onto is that, not unlike the change in tennis, you need to move faster. You need to set things up faster. You need to grab the reader with good scenes faster. The time between your best scenes needs to be shorter.
