'FADE IN' is a beautiful thing. I've had a handful of novels published but never sold a script, so my opinion isn't worth much--still,I don't think the situations are all that similar. Maybe the equivalent in a screenplay is with a first _image_? "The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. If this were the beginning of a poem, he would have called the thing he felt inside him the silence of slow." - Pamuk's SNOW.

"If a script is good enough, then you should be a writer, make it into a novel. Cinema has certain qualities, and it's the image. The image has its own breathing, tempo. It has to linger, and will linger because you want to have more. You can't write all your images on paper, there are too many things—sound, music, actors—the script has no tempo, it's not readable. I write the scenes, some essential details, and some dialogue." Wong Kar Wai Jay Finkelstein is correct: the situations are not similar. If one is investing that much time on any sentence in a s/play, that person really should be pursuing life as a novelist.

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