Writing is re-writing

Its an old saying: all writing is rewriting. But you never learn it until you actually experience its magic.

Sending a proposal, looking at the story synopsis I was submitting, I was feeling that this was not it- this was not my story. So I began to tinker around and rewrite what I thought was my story.

Almost magically, the story transformed, it became what I was always trying to write. At the end of it I was left wondering if it was really me that had done the writing.

And of course accepting the old truth: all writing is rewriting.

Somehow, rewriting is like plumbing deeper into yourself, to find the 'real' story. Which of course will be further transformed by your collaborators- financiers and actors and cameramen and editors and sound-men. You will and stay on top of the situation, its your job as writer- director, but somehow by then the story has its own life. As has each project.

But still, a pleasure to find a story and then an old saying.