Screenwriters of ‘American Fiction,’ ‘Past Lives’ and More Reveal Toughest Scenes, From the Invention of a Lie to A Sadistic Husband’s Arrival

The creative process can sometimes be highly organized, and others completely ephemeral: for every story that’s been mapped out beat by beat there’s another that arrived completely intact from a writer’s fingers in a feverish outpouring of inspiration. Somewhere in between these extremes is the unglamorous, frequently tedious work of chipping away at an idea, […]
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