catalyncrwth: setup-setup-payoff: Hi everybody. Welcome to Setup Setup Payoff. First of all, who do I follow? Like this status if you have a screenwriting blog or send me an ask with cool users I should be listening to. Hi! You should definitely be following lifeascaty, writerlyn, annerocious, freelance-anthem, alexontv, and writer-of-whatever! (And I know I’m…

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Example: Emotional prose in your script. Quick, compact, visual. The voice is exciting (Whiplash was written/directed by Damien Chazelle). Pro tip: Don’t use your prose to focus on the static, meaningless things in your scene.

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Useful Confessions #8

Writing for competitions – you have to make something new and interesting happen immediately. Not difficult with this one crazy trick. Make sameness WORK FOR YOU. Take that opening scene that’s so common and obvious and overused and MAKE IT END IN A COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED WAY. Instead of killing that pretty young woman, chase her…

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salon: At an under-the-radar town hall in Des Moines, Sanders had the crowd begging for more. Here’s why it matters Bernie Sanders has neckties older than most of his audience at last Friday’s Drake University Town Hall in Des Moines. Yet the age differential didn’t matter. His college-age audience loved him. Organized by Drake progressive…

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aspiringtvwriter: aspiringtvwriter: Page five is far too early to judge right? No it was not.

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