So we’ve established here that there are a lot of things you can do in your script that make it go thunk when it should tinkle like a silver bell. lifeascaty has been assembling lists of good ones, you can peruse her blog for collections of produced scripts by genre and artist to find your…
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Read morethe-murderous-bettie-rage: I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MY ENTIRE LIFE. Writer jokes. This is the End writing credits: Seth Rogen … (screenplay) & Evan Goldberg … (screenplay)
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GOOD SETUP: It’s cool, I can’t see where it’s going, I’ve never seen it before, it’s doing something fun while establishing something important for later. BAD SETUP: I’ve seen it before, I know how it works, nothing happens. A yawn. Setup is the reader’s introduction to your ability to innovate and surprise. Spend some time…
Read more7 Aha Moments from ‘Engaging the Feminine Heroic’
7 Aha Moments from ‘Engaging the Feminine Heroic’ nywift: The magical lecture by author and script consultant Dara Marks began, appropriately enough, with a blustery downpour. A unique co-production between New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) and Writers Guild of America East, “Engaging the Feminine Heroic” was an invitation…
Read moreREVERSE ENGINEER YOUR REWRITE
Aliens is such a fantastic example of this, you should just watch it five times in a row so you can catch all the little setups and how they are accomplished. Nothing is wasted. Everything does double duty. The power loader is the ultimate in reverse engineered awesomeness, of course, it pays off in well-established…
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