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Too Much Dialogue?

lisa gornick new script   Yes, I’m still working on my novella. And envious of Lisa Gornick , if this image is a self-portrait. It's so much less pleasurable to open Word than it is to open Final Draft. And once Word is open, it's so much easier to get distracted and into another Word file (or two). And I’m much much slower with a novella than a script. Not surprising. And I'm distracted by a surprising amount of email feedback about the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) statistical update I did for WIFTNZ and also added to the Development Facebook notes , where some overseas correspondents picked it up. The feedback came from women who feel they’ve experienced a (negative) change in attitude towards women’s projects at the NZFC. From women concerned that their feedback from the NZFC (and elsewhere) names “too much dialogue” as a problem. From women all over, who decide to write screenplays about men, not because they feel they should be able to write about anything 

MIA

lisa gornick intense drawing face   I'm working on a novella. Up early, 45 minutes on the egg timer, breakfast, another two lots of 45 minutes. And then a bit of gardening, as I think about where and how to go next with the story. A VERY quiet life, because I've never written a novella, and want to see how it differs from a feature screenplay, which has about the same number of words. And was interrupted by the Wellington NZFC review meeting, and the Fresh Shorts announcement, and rounding up statistics for a wee report about NZFC gender inequity, available here , but without a couple of graphs; I can't load them onto the Development FB notes or onto this blog, but they're included in my PhD thesis .* So far responses to the report are very positive, and I am hopeful (as always) that things may change for New Zealand women filmmakers. And then have to complete some work for which I was paid before I started my PhD (embarrassing, yes, even though there was also