BE STRONG

Cull. Whittle. Refine. Don’t waste a minute on a stale, usual, boring premise. The general problem with early scripts is that they are way too conservative in character and payoff.

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TENSION

Letting tension out in the script happens when conflicts are resolved too soon. It happens in scenes with two or three lines of wrap up dialogue that should be cut. You lose momentum when you let out tension. Keep the tension rising in your script by giving your protag more problems instead of solving them….

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