Remember that every produced screenplay has at least a dozen drafts before it Anonymous (via gideonsway) At THE VERY LEAST.
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…
Read moreAll-Plot Scripts
If your cool plot happens to someone we don’t care about, it doesn’t matter.
Read moreSo I’ve started my intro. to screenwriting class in college a couple weeks ago. Any pointers you would like to shell out to this newb?
annerocious: If I had one single piece of advice, it would be: spend way more time developing layered, interesting characters than you think is necessary and less on plot. When you develop your characters properly, serious conflicts suggest themselves very naturally and your plot will follow obligingly along. Also follow writerlyn, lifeascaty, thisoldbitch and freelance-anthem…
Read morewriterlyn: I just read the first scene of three separate screenplays… … …and they all started with a pretty young woman getting killed. …. for fucks sake. Please don’t start your script this way. FFS. What’s wrong with you that you can’t stop killing women?
Read moreHelpful Hint From the Comment Section
annerocious: Protags are easier to write when they are not a slightly blurred version of the writer. If you read a comment section on an “issue” piece of any kind, you can identify the characters represented there as if the usernames were “DelusionalMRA”, “MyFeelingsAreFacts” and “YouFoolishPeasants”. You understand everything about those people immediately. You know…
Read moreGood ideas are often murdered by better ones. Roddy Doyle (via thescriptlab) If you’re not writing your script with this in mind, you are missing opportunities left and right.
Read moreCharacters of Color
I want CoC. All colors. All orientations. All those stories. Do you understand that all the other stories have already been told? A thousand thousand times? We live in a world of stories, and we can’t underestimate how we are placed in slots by those stories. Fat girls don’t deserve adoration, black girls can’t be…
Read morelifeascaty: I have to read over a script I wrote a couple of years ago, but two pages in and I’m not sure if I can stand the embarrassment. Ahahahahahahahahahaha. Same.
Read morefacebooksexism: thebluelip-blondie: skeptikhaleesi: brownglucose: nextyearsgirl: The absence of women in history is man made. How petty just look at babe ruth’s face tho so confused so lost i love it pure hater shit Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of. Here is that awesome plot you were looking for.
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