Yeah.

Yeah, and it's a whole different type of writing.

You know, journalism is just the facts, ma'am.

Screenwriting, I liken more to haiku.

It's very sparse.

The dialogue's very misleading, or it should be if it's good dialogue.

Can't be a Q&A.

my next question

How's that?

Yeah.

No, actually, I do write a biography, a short biography of each one of the main characters where I discuss kind of what they look like, what are their verbal tics, what are their faults, what haunts them, how do they speak.

Miriam, who's Dutch, speaks multiple languages.

She speaks English fluently, but she never uses contraction.

And Rogers is an American... who fled America because he thought he'd killed somebody and he didn't.

So he's this rough and tough sailor who has to learn with her more compassion and empathy and soften the way he deals with things.

Does that sort of That must really disturb you, because it drives me crazy, actually, personally.

Okay.

It's a true story.

Years ago, I was watching a terrible TV movie.

I don't remember what it was.

With my daughter, Alison, and my wife, Margo.

And I kept saying, I know I can write a better screenplay than this writer in America.

So that night I had a dream and I woke up the next day and I knew the first scene and I knew the last scene and I knew the name of the ship and the Peggy C.

And so according to history, how close did they get?

How was the shift to writing fiction and screenplays for you after writing journalism?

Very, very different.

I could write quickly.

I was with the AP, so I learned to write very fast and describing things.

But it was just the facts.

It was what I could see, what the facts were.

With screenplays, screenplays I likened to haiku.

got to sort of divide it out and.