Screenwriting isn’t about dialogue. Screenwriters write image, thought, emotion. (via scriptwriters-network) Yup. (via thisoldbitch) If I could tattoo this on your hand, I would.

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kiarasnaps: Laverne: Nicole, does your belief system now change, in which you now know you don’t need him to be there? Nicole: No. I think what happens is it turns into less a conversation about my blackness and more about relating to humanity, because that’s really what we’re trying to do. We’re just realizing that people…

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clevergirlhelps: Writability: 7 Signs You Should Cut Your Prologue avajae: Those of you who follow me on Twitter may or may not have seen this last week: The more I do this interning stuff, the more I see why agents advise against prologues. 9/10 times you really don’t need it. #pubtip — Ava Jae (@Ava_Jae)…

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Eric Heisserer On Subtext in Screenplays

caseymoore2: From his twitter: – All right, diving in: The demon in the room I want to talk about today is subtext. Subtext makes me suffer so. Oh, the suffering– Because its delicious presence in a script is the mark of good writing, and its inverse is the sign of bad writing. But there’s a…

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If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Coco Chanel. Consider it done.  (via versteur)

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If you describe how a character drinks a cup of coffee, then the coffee better be poisoned. Dave Trottier (via the-epimethean)

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involuntaryadult: Remember your first kiss? We asked a few people to tell us their stories, and the result was unbearably cute. Help support our film, “Check Yes or No,” by contributing to our Indiegogo campaign!  (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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ticktockdearie: pounding out a first draft no matter how crappy it is like

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beautiful-tragicinthefalloutboy: “Previously, researchers had misidentified skeletons as male simply because they were buried with their swords and shields. By studying osteological signs of gender within the bones themselves, researchers discovered that approximately half of the remains were actually female warriors, given a proper burial with their weapons.” Here is that awesome plot you were looking…

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Notes from a Screenreader: Don’t Whimper

nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Your ending needs a bang. Settling gently down to Fade Out from the end of Act Two does not an Act Three make. Don’t hold back. Act Three is a balloon you keep inflating until it explodes. Push it as far as it will go. Tie up loose…

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