Don’t stop at an iteration of your idea that can be explained in dialogue. Envision ways to tell your story in which things happen that are interesting to WATCH.
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Right Hook
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. A spec script with a real hook jumps right out of the pile. It’s the difference between an indestructible cyborg from the future relentlessly attempting to murder Sarah Connor and Sarah Connor, for instance, getting a message from the future that she should start taking self-defense classes while…
Read moreYOUR SCRIPT AS THERAPY
Your script should be therapy, you wouldn’t write if you had a better way to externalize the issues that snag and hold and fascinate you. Using language to communicate your deepest self to others is your thing. Except you have to be really careful when you choose screenwriting to do this, because your first job…
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