Inside the Untold Drama: Crafting a Trump vs. Anti-Trump RomCom with Erik Bork
Ashley
So, let’s talk about the actual writing of this script. And I’d be curious to hear if this sort of was deviated from your normal writing process. But this is I fire off these questions, maybe you can answer it sort of in terms of this specific script. Just like where did you write this? How long did it take you to write this? What does your process look like? How much of an outline did you come up with before you wrote it?
Erik Bork
I think I probably wrote it over like a six-month period, where, you know, work out my home office and, and then I was living in California, now the New York City. I yeah, my normal process went to this followed, I think is I do an outline, I do a scene by scene outline, I probably do some version of like a rough kind of save the cap each sheet even for myself as I’m starting out, like I’m like, I just said all is lost, but like into back to like, I have structural pre planning thing that I definitely do once I feel good about the concept. And so it was probably pretty typical for me and then you know, many drafts and then getting feedback and many more thinking you have it, I did a zoom read through and I have to zoom read through I was like, Oh, no, this is going to work like it went through some pretty major changes over time that I think made it better. Most of those changes were in the direction of softening it into something more like romantic comedy where the both people relatable because originally I had her like more delusional, almost and him a little more hardcore right wing, like I softened a lot of edges to try to make a more palatable people, which you kind of need in a rom com and so but yeah, the normal kind of hell of like you get feedback and you have to rethink it and you rewrite it. But nothing majorly worse than usual.
