The director of the cartoon series I am writing had a problem. I wrote two minutes more of episode then he needed. In screenwriting, the rule is one page for one minute. However, when action is involved, as it is with an animated cartoon, one description line of action on a page can be several seconds to a minute or two of action. That is not a problem, just have the writer go back, trim a few things and everyone will be happy. Easier said than done. Any writer who is honest will admit that deleting dialogue or a complete scene they wrote is a difficult part of writing. There was a reason for it to be in that part of the script and removing it changes the story. Cut too much and the story becomes meaningless or falls apart.
If I might wax poetic for a moment; there are those who want to do that with the story of creation. They want to remove God from it because He complicates the story for them. If God is in the story of creation then He is the center, the focal point. Cut God out and the story revolves around them. Well, that is the plan. The problem is that the story of creation falls apart without God. A story without God becomes a fairytale and a fairytale is a story that is not true just made up.
If I might wax poetic for a moment; there are those who want to do that with the story of creation. They want to remove God from it because He complicates the story for them. If God is in the story of creation then He is the center, the focal point. Cut God out and the story revolves around them. Well, that is the plan. The problem is that the story of creation falls apart without God. A story without God becomes a fairytale and a fairytale is a story that is not true just made up.
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