Beat Treatments
In college I had several foreign exchange friends from Japan, and I once asked them their favorite joke. Despite insisting it did not translate, I was treated to one of my favorite jokes ever. Q: How do you put an elephant in a trunk? A: Well, first you have to cut it up. All translation and darkness implications aside, this joke does cut to the heart of one of the issues of starting a new screenplay/ novel: It’s daunting as hell due to being so huge. Q: So what do you do? A:
