Vanilla Chunk at 2009-02-20 13:34:00:
God.
I LOVE that language. It's all lusty and bold and tender. I am so tired of all this terse, don't-go-on-too-long Morse Code we're told to write in now.
My next script...and I have felt this building up inside me, for months, this decision...I'm going to use all the beauty I can muster. Scene descriptions that are, okay, not too long, but SHOW WHAT I WANT TO SAY, what I see in my head when I'm writing. Mr. Myers: is this good or bad for a writer trying to sell something, now, in Hollywood?
Scott at 2009-02-20 14:52:00:
VC said, "Scene descriptions that are, okay, not too long, but SHOW WHAT I WANT TO SAY, what I see in my head when I'm writing."

Nothing wrong with that at all. Great scene description is a combination of strong visuals and conveying a sense of tone (as you noted with your wonderful description: "lusty and bold and tender").

I think of scene description more like poetry than prose. In fact, here's a post from last June that gets into that idea.

Poetry is about strong visuals, a sense of tone tied to a specific place and time, and economy of words. Doesn't that sound like a formula for great scene description?