Respect and Your Protagonist

When you create your characters and sketch out your plot, you will notice the moments when the events of the plot challenge the values of your protagonist. It doesn’t really matter where on the alignment your character falls – – as long as in those moments, their decisions are consistent with who they are and…

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berrystumpytail: Blocked This is that workshop note that makes your whole script dissolve into the void.

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annerocious: lifeascaty: @annerocious you would have such a bad feeling about my script. This latest draft saw it creep up to 120. i’m so mad at myself. at the script. at everything. !!!! There’s a pretentious literary quote for this. I’ll go google it. I can’t find it, but it was definitely Hemingway, possibly Fitzgerald,…

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writing-questions-answered: Anonymous asked: Do you have any knowledge about screenwriting? I was going to ask if the 120 page limit for a movie script was as strict as my internet search was making it out to be. (First time spec script writer) If not, perhaps you might know of some tumblr script writing blogs? I…

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Never feel that you’re ‘married’ to an idea, even if it was the original idea that sparked the story. It might have to go, like a scaffolding that comes down after a mural is painted. Laini Taylor (via psliterary)

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