This is how large a spilled cup of coffee looms in the first ten pages of spec scripts. It’s right up there with running late for work and getting dumped. I do not know what a spilled cup of coffee is supposed to convey about a character or their situation. It is utterly meaningless. It…
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New stories with new angles grab attention. What if you wrote a story about a grizzled ex-marine whose head will explode if he resorts to violence? Or a woman who causes a natural disaster every time she gives in to her overbearing family? When you deliberately cut yourself off from slipping into cliche characters and…
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