THE FIRST TEN PAGES TURN OUT TO BE A FLASHBACK
Song Titles in Action Lines?
I am married to a musician and I hear lots and lots of music, new and old. There are fifty hours of Later with Jools Holland on my DVR right now. But I am still not familiar with your favorite band, so when I read song titles in your description lines, I don’t know what…
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WHEN A SEX SCENE GETS ODDLY SPECIFIC
PLOT HOLE
WHAT BEATSHEET?
EVERY WOMAN IN THE SCRIPT HITS ON THE PROTAG
“URBAN” DIALOGUE
Everybody Mansplains
Mansplaining goes on in spec scripts. A lot. So as not to offend, I will call it the gender-neutral “screenplaining” instead. It is a structural problem that happens when the writer believes that readers need certain information up front to be able to properly interpret the story. However unintentionally, screenplaining condescends by assuming that the…
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