An excerpt from an email I just sent: “By the way, Aristotle’s POETICS is absolutely NOT an easy read, so when you hear Crag Mazin [a pretty successful Hollywood writer] say that, just know he’s lying to you! … unless you are already an expert on Ancient Greek society, dithyrambic poetry, and music of the lyre. Then it’s a breeze.” #Writing#ScreenWriting#Filmmaking
@WTL It really is, and Craig's "How to Write a Movie" episode is absolutely pure gold. But he's just plain wrong about Poetics being an "easy read." Or I am dum. (Could be the latter.) 😂
@WTL I was actually talking about just that podcast, and exactly that episode. Craig recommends reading Poetics, and that’s when he says, “It’s an easy read. You’ll finish it in about half an hour,” then calls it, “a good bathroom book.” 😂 Not one bit of that is true!!!
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