“Unraveling the Twists of ‘Carousel’: A Screenplay That Dares You to Question Reality”
But that’s not storytelling.
Storytelling requires a plot. It requires you to periodically advance the story in dramatically compelling ways.
I don’t think I encountered a single plot point here. I’m not asking for 16,000 plot points, like Deadpool & Wolverine. But can you give me one? Even though I liked the Maya character, as we trudged towards the midpoint, I was hoping she was going to die so, at least the story could have some plot to deal with.
It just makes things so much harder on you, as the writer, if you’re only writing a character study. When characters are only going through internal emotions, that exploration needs to be perfect for the script to work. You have no wiggle room for error like you do when you’re hitting us with a new plot point every 10 pages.
