OK. So you want to amp up your drama, your conflicts, your stakes. There’s this one thing you should stop doing: Justifying your protag’s bad behavior and letting him off the hook for it. Spec scripts have this incredible enabling parent mode towards their protagonists, and there are different reasons for it, but they’re all…
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nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. THIS is the supreme last word on screenwriting from David Mamet. It is a memo from Mamet to his writing staff on The Unit, which you may or may not recall ran for 69 episodes between 2006 and 2009. It is glorious, true, funny, useful and brilliant. It’s not…
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