{"id":505,"date":"2010-11-03T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=505"},"modified":"2010-11-03T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:00:46","slug":"doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"doing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Harsh.<\/strong> That’s what I always think when I hear the old saw, “Those who can’t do, teach.” It sounds so mean, I have a hard time saying it out loud. Now John August, whose blog I thoroughly love and appreciate (along with his writing<\/a>) has weighed in on the idea<\/a>, using this guy’s rant<\/a> as a starting point for a more measured take.\u00a0To be fair, the main target is script consultants<\/em>, but August goes on to paint all “how-to” folk (book writers, script consultants, seminar-givers) with a broad brush:<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t endorse any of them. I haven\u2019t found any I\u2019d recommend to readers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m a little shocked that of all the screenwriting books out there \u2014 and there are plenty \u2014 John is unable to find\u00a0even one<\/em> he can recommend (I have found many to be helpful in simply providing an alternate POV on the work, a useful exercise whether I agree with the author’s conclusions\/assertions or not). But then August comes right back with his reasonable awesomeness with something I can whole-heartedly agree with:<\/p>\n

“I think you can learn from people who have spent a long time analyzing a craft, even if they\u2019re not particularly good at practicing it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is what has always bothered me about “Those who can’t do, teach.” There can be great insight gained from methodical analysis of any technique… Even writing. But sadly, not everyone who gains insights into how something is done \u00a0is actually cut out to\u00a0do<\/em> the thing themselves! We all know the gap between what we can appreciate<\/em> and what we can pull off;<\/em> that maddening gap that keeps us working and striving so that one day, if we are fortunate, we might create something that closes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harsh. That’s what I always think when I hear the old saw, “Those who can’t do, teach.” It sounds so mean, I have a hard time saying it out loud. Now John August, whose blog I thoroughly love and appreciate (along with his writing) has weighed in on the idea, using this guy’s rant as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}