If You Did Not Cry Like A Bitch
Then you don’t know how a sequence works. It is a perfect lesson in theme, suspense, character, subtext, reversal and plot.
Read moreTime and Your Rewrite
You have full power in your universe to dilate and contract time exactly as you see fit. How long things take on the page depends entirely on how important they are in your story. When you go back to rewrite, consider how you use time. After your first draft, you can start shrinking your first…
Read morebeebeeight: i saw alice through the looking glass and it was certainly a film that had johnny depp in it.
Read morewriterofscreen: I don’t know you. I don’t want to read your screenplay.
Read morePeople only speak to get something. David Mamet, The Art of Theater No. 11 (via theparisreview)
Read moreThis Marvel Thing
Is why you really have to set up your payoffs.
Read moreamlalonde: That moment when you’re tying to finish a first draft and you glance back and see all the plot holes in your manuscript.
Read moreHow Your Spec Is Like A Selfie In A Filthy Room
The part of the picture that matters to you, being you, looks good. But you left in fifteen extra themes, a bunch of setup that has no payoff and a bunch of payoff that has no setup, a full layer of exposition in dialogue that should be shown in action and how can you not notice…
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