Archive for December, 2016

Screenwriting Course #195: Exercises to Write Better Film Narrative

Remember this. That the person who reads your script has read many, many scripts. He or she knows what a professional screenplay should read and sound like. It shouldn’t feel like a first draft. Every sentence has to have energy and rhythm and punch. It’s not just the dialogue that has to connect with the […]

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Screenwriting Course #194: Writing Great Film Narrative

Hello, everyone. I was just published in a screenwriting book: “Now WRITE! SCREENWRITING” — Screenwriting Exercises From Today’s Best Writers and Teachers. I wrote a chapter devoted to writing Great Film Narrative: Chapter 14: It’s The Read – Writing Great Film Narrative. I thought you might enjoy some of the lessons I laid out for […]

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