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The Secret to Your Script”s Success
To survive the fantasyland that is show business, you need to know the fundamentals and hard truths of scriptwriting and selling. More importantly, you need to know the tricks of the trade that can...
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And the Oscar Goes To…
Formatting is the bane of a screenwriter”s existence. Wouldn”t you rather be lost in thought about your characters, inside their heads as they speak, instead of thinking about font sizes, column width...
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Today’s scriptwriter no longer needs to manually crank that first sheet of paper into the typewriter or set margins on the computer word processor. Thanks to modern script-formatting programs, you can...
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First Success
Author: Holly Payne, 30, studied journalism at the University of Richmond in Virginia and earned her master”s from the Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She...
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10 Final Draft Shortcuts
The more you learn about crafting top-notch scripts with Oscar-caliber dialogue, the less time you want to spend worrying about industry-standard format. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology,...
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Pushing the Line and Reaping the Reward
Most first books tend to be filled with cautious, garden variety narrative and dialogue—good enough to be published, but not attention-getters. Andes Hruby, author of The Trouble With Catherine...
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