Uncover the Untold Secrets of Screenwriting with Jack Epps in This Exclusive Go Into The Story Interview
I like to think of rewriting like breaking concrete. It’s hard backbreaking blue collar work. You’ve got to break things and smash things and redo them. And it all comes back to fundamentals. You’ve got to make sure your core elements of character, story, structure, and theme are working together. While I was not necessarily a theme writer originally, I’ve really come to believe that theme is critical. Theme is the glue that holds all those elements together. And it doesn’t matter if the audience understand your theme as long as the writer understands his or her theme.
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