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annerocious: Protags are easier to write when they are not a slightly blurred version of the writer. If you read a comment section on an “issue” piece of any kind, you can identify the characters represented there as if the usernames were “DelusionalMRA”, “MyFeelingsAreFacts” and “YouFoolishPeasants”. You understand everything about those people immediately. You know…

annerocious: writerlyn: I just read the first scene of three separate screenplays… … …and they all started with a pretty young woman getting killed. …. for fucks sake. Please don’t start your script this way. FFS. What’s wrong with you that you can’t stop killing women?

annerocious: Emotion. Your script is so focused on conveying information it forgets to check in with how its characters are relating to each other. Your plan for the second act. What’s your hook? You have your situational setup and then…that’s it, Helen, let’s just talk about it until the end. Proofreading. I don’t bother correcting…

annerocious: It can wait. It’s a much better choice to present something as a mystery than it is to explain it in dialogue.

annerocious: Readers want a surprising, unusual opening image that presents information about the story in a visual way. HOW DO I DO THAT? Look at opening images from movies you’re enthusiastic about. What invites you in? What makes you curious about the people and the place? What do you notice about the beginning now that…

patternsinnoise: just-shower-thoughts: It only takes three generations for you to be basically forgotten Tell that to my great great uncle, who is the reason that it’s illegal to drive a tractor while drunk in the state of Kansas.