WITCHES BURNING IN SALEM, DEFIBRILLATORS ON FLATLINING PATIENTS, EMBASSIES BEING FOREIGN SOIL, ANYTHING ABOUT HACKING OR CLONES OR VACCINES OR SOMEONE ELSE’S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. OR THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
Watching movies doesn’t count!
Read moreThe rush you feel when you fall in love with a character is actually you hacking your own endocrine system. That’s an X-Men level power.
Read moreWRITING WITHOUT A BEAT SHEET
When you get a great idea and start without developing the bones of the story, you will probably get about thirty pages in before the wheels come off. Which is fine. You can put down your pages and do your outline then. But you still need one, because screenplays are incredibly intricate. Every scene you…
Read moreTHE BIGGER PLAN
There are characters you can’t bear to hurt when they start to wimp out on their destiny and sell you the idea that maybe they can skate a little. The plan is bigger than they are. I ruined a really good script and missed the cut at NIcholls by a hair because my protag got…
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