Iain said:
This is because a book is like a cake and a script is like a recipe for a cake. A script which actually contained all the worked-out detail of a finished artistic product would look hellishly overwritten, with nothing for the director or performers to do.
One reason that many actors and directors hate working with a living playwright who is present at rehearsals is that many a playwright doesn't WANT there to be anything for the director or performers to do other than do EXACTLY what the playwright put into the script.
Maybe that's what being a fanwriter is about? Achieving Hitchcock's dream of treating actors like cattle because we have total control over them? Maybe bad stories come about from Mad Character Disease (which in turn, is caused by what we feed them?)
-(Y)