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Read moreWhat Your Spec Script is Missing
Emotion. Your script is so focused on conveying information it forgets to check in with how its characters are relating to each other. Your plan for the second act. What’s your hook? You have your situational setup and then…that’s it, Helen, let’s just talk about it until the end. Proofreading. I don’t bother correcting spelling…
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More Pilots! lifeascaty: I love pilots. Good pilots & bad pilots, old pilots & new pilots. Just pilots. Here are 50 more for you to get your teeth into. (The original 70 pilot post can be found here.) 90210 (2008) Almost Human (2013) About a Boy (2013) Archer (2010) Arrested Development (2003)
Read moreYOUR STORY IS INFINITE
Your screenplay is not. There are millions upon millions of ways to tell the story, and most of them are the best way. As you go along, more and more of them will become apparent. You can only have one. It should be one that hasn’t been chosen before, and you have to rewrite as…
Read moreBLIND SPOTS
Your screenplay is weak in those places where it intersects with what you don’t really know about yourself. Not that you’re a great tangled mystery, but you take most of your own personality for granted and don’t notice it until someone yells at you about it. Politics and religion and -isms are great examples of…
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Writing IKEA Style
Notes from a Screenreader: Writing IKEA Style nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. A script, ideally, is one of those 300 square foot IKEA show apartments with every nook and cranny made useful two or three times over. Static placeholder scenes stick out like a farmhouse table. Written to clarify the writer’s thoughts on…
Read moreIS IT A SCRIPT AT ALL?
It might be a novel or a short story or a painting or a collage or a poem. You might have a script idea if: It’s about a person who needs to accomplish something difficult. The person has a flaw that gets in the way. Strong forces oppose them. The story and its themes are…
Read moreHow TV Scripts are Different
TV scripts as far as the eye can see
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