The same is true for a screenplay.
Your screenplay is not a machine. It is a cat. It will come to you when it is ready. And when it does, it will bring a dead bird in its mouth—a strange, messy, beautiful gift that only it could catch. thiraikathai enum poonai
And I have written pages at 2 AM, crying with laughter or despair, while a stray thought rubbed against my ankle. Those pages? They hissed at me for weeks. But eventually, they curled up in my lap and purred. The same is true for a screenplay
“A screenplay is a cat.”
The great Tamil screenwriters—from K. Balachander to Mani Ratnam, from Crazy Mohan to Vetrimaaran—understood this. They did not build plots like brick walls. They built courtyards where the story could wander, nap in the sunlight, and occasionally scratch the furniture. It will come to you when it is ready