Inside the Untold Drama: Crafting a Trump vs. Anti-Trump RomCom with Erik Bork
Erik Bork
Yeah, so the book was based on me having, you know, studied screenwriting and worked at it professionally and not for many years and then starting to teach it and starting to mentor people, which I’m still doing. And I started seeing certain patterns and what were the key things that we writers tend to stumble on. The biggest thing I noticed is that writers, myself included, want to jump into the writing too soon before they have a really viable, solid idea. Everybody does this. And what I learned when I was in the business, once I had an agent, is that they don’t want you to ever do that. They want you to pitch your stuff to them and not write it unless they’ve really vetted it and think it’s worth writing from a marketplace standpoint. And my experience is that most of my ideas would get shot down by my own agents. So, it’s not easy to come up with a viable idea. And so I started thinking about, well, what do I want people to know? Or what am I always telling people I think are the elements? And so, I came up with a problem acronym because every story is about a problem to be solved the way I view it. And so the seven elements are the seven things that you want your idea for a story to have, which are easier said than done. And they all line up with problem as an acronym.
