I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.
People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.
Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.
A script is like a theory of a movie.
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
Use plot to buttress a story.
In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang ideas off of.
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.
