Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesErnest Hemingway famously once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”What Papa Hemingway meant, of course, is that the craft of writing is emotional, draining and often psychologically taxing, especially when mining stories that bring to the fore crucial social issues such as racism, sexual harassment and civil rights.
Writing is also very much a solitary pursuit, perhaps the one aspect of filmmaking that can, in most cases, be carried out in the cocoon of one’s home — and mind — before the process takes on a decidedly collaborative bent, with producers, directors and editors working their collective magic.
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