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
EVERY WOMAN IN THE SCRIPT HITS ON THE PROTAG
WHEN YOUR ELEVATOR PITCH WARPS INTO ALL THE BACKSTORY
Readers Just Wanna Direct
It can’t be a revolutionary idea, but I’ve never read it in a book or been taught it specifically by any of my outstanding teachers, so I’ll just say it here. Write your spec script to entertain your reader, not as the draft you’re going to shoot. Consider how you read a novel, and how…
Read moreThe Cats I Have Seen Saved
Found footage of my cat. Fade out. Poe’s Law infers that there is no way for me to know what the pie chart looks like for Ironic Cat-Saving vs. The Book Said to Save a Cat on This Page vs. Cats Saved by Coincidence vs. Other, but it is not an SRS I’m talking about….
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