Watching movies doesn’t count!
Read moreLITERALLY NO ONE CARES ABOUT NICE
Which you know if you’ve ever tried to make someone like you by being nice. You can make a story out of: A nice person diving into the nasty pool A nasty person doing laps in the nasty pool A nasty person climbing out of the nasty pool for a redeeming purpose But there is…
Read morePAUL (30), a wanne-be game designer who grew up in a Southern doomsday cult, feels out of place in the suit he only wears to job interviews.
METICULOUSLY DESCRIBED SEX SCENES
optimusoap said: Sorry if I sound naive, but do you/script readers get THAT many bad scripts? Absolutely! Screenwriting is a bear. A grizzly bear. It is so easy to write a bad script that everybody does it.
Read moreCAN I GET AN AMEN
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Read moreNew York Women in Film & Television: Notes from a Screenreader
New York Women in Film & Television: Notes from a Screenreader nywift: photo via Go Into the Story A vast majority of spec scripts submitted to competitions open with mundane images. It seems like a logical choice. Establishing normal life is an explicit instruction in many structure templates. Filmmakers often open with shots of unremarkable…
Read moreTHE PROTAG SAVES A CAT
EAVESDROPPING AS A PLOT DEVICE
THE PROTAG MAKES BAD DECISIONS
Protags are boring when they don’t screw up their lives in spectacular ways out of pride, fear, insecurity, blind stupidity, selfishness or sheer bloody-mindedness. Bad decisions make good stories.
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