Screenwriting is a form of work routinely characterized as riven by the unassailable dichotomy between craft and creativity. (Location 83)
Screenwriting work bridges the discrete categories of ‘writing’ and ‘filmmaking’ and what is interesting when trying to define screenwriting work is the porosity of these roles, the ways in which this profession interacts with other types of work: directing, producing, playwriting, fiction writing and journalism. Many people who define themselves as screenwriters also define themselves as other kinds of writers, or as writers in different mediums, or as producers as well as screenwriters, or as screenwriting teachers and script consultants or script readers. (Location 99)
Screenwriters often practice a number of these modes of creative production simultaneously but screenwriting is understood as offering a number of particular attractions and benefits: form and structure, craft and collaborative possibilities. (Location 106)
