laurelhach: using microsoft word *moves an image a mm to the left* all text and images shift. four new pages appear. paragraph breaks form a union. a swarm of commas buzzes at the window. in the distance, sirens. I feel this on a molecular level.
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When you use this dialogue transition as a cheap shortcut to lay out some exposition for me, I turn right into Alison Hendrix. It’s such a bad technique that I lose confidence in the rest of your script. It tells me that for you, dialogue is how the reader finds out about the plot ahead…
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annerocious: Turn off the “continued” at the top and bottom of every page option. It’s in the preferences menu.
Read more17272dorsetave: You’ll know your first act once you know how your movie ends. John Lasseter CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH this magnificent pro tip.
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annerocious: If you read a script for a movie you love, you will immediately grasp how much of what you experienced was NOT ON THE PAGE. So read a bunch of scripts from movies you love. Screenwriting is not hand-holding and spoon-feeding.
Read moreninjachibi117: pizzaback: I hate how the stereotype is that dolphins are good and sharks are evil, when dolphins are so smart that they have the capacity for evil but sharks are simple fish who can only be true neutral, so even if a minority of dolphins are evil there are still more evil dolphins than…
Read morepsliterary: Rule 1) “You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.” – Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling Good rule to remember when making your obstacles too easy to overcome!
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walkingoutintherain: annerocious: 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,…
Read morebrightwalldarkroom: “The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.” —Alain de Botton
Read moreUseful Confessions #8
annerocious: 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…
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