Many screenwriters attempt to write a work of substance - full of meaning. They want to be original and intelligent and inventive.

As soon as they attempt this, they shut down.

One of the primary creativity blocks is evaluation apprehension: people are so worried about creating original and intelligent content that they self edit themselves to redundancy [and create limited output].

If the writers of Red Riding Hood had known the number of times their work would be interpreted and analysed for meaning, they may never have written it.

A good way to be original is to be obvious.

A good way to allow fluid creative output is to ignore content.

In other words, separate creative from critical thinking.

Using this technique, it is pretty easy to write a words-on-paper first draft. Of course, that words-on-paper first draft is not presentable. But by then identifying problems, generating ideas and allowing the process of incubation to unfold, a decent draft evolves.

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