A grad student came in, after recovering from a near heart attack when she saw I gave her a C+ on her midterm. Never in her entire life got a grade so low. I was kind.
Problem is, she wrote a screenplay using the rhetoric of a novel -- for some reason, hadn't gotten the message yet about what screenwriting is and is not. She's a fine writer -- of prose. What she does well is harder than screenwriting. So I started translating her midterm into screenwriting for her and she's a quick learner. Oh! I think she'll be fine now.
Took a wake up call. Was so used to getting accolades for her writing etc etc etc. Screenwriting is a very different form! Not a writing form so much as a storytelling form.
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