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You’ve been working for months on your latest
script, and it’s almost ready to market. Frankly, you’re just about out of
steam. Of course you are. Screenwriting is hard work – at least if
you’re trying to do it well. But it’s
not all so damn laborious. Here
are ten easy-peasy things you can do that each have a high probability of
improving your masterpiece:
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1.
Scan through your script and pick the weakest/least
necessary scene and cut that out. It’s
not hard, just highlight it and press delete.
All of your scenes are equally powerful you say? Funny, I’ve never found that to be the case
in any script I’ve read (professional or amateur, produced or unproduced). Well, in any event, what you are
certain of is that all of your scenes are absolutely necessary for the story to
make sense. My reply to that assertion
is the same: I’ve never seen it, and I’ve read a whole lot of drafts.
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2.
Along the same lines, go through your first page
and find a few words you don’t need. Cut
those out. Again, this is easy, and
unless you’re the most merciless self-editor ever to attempt a screenplay,
there are at least several page-one words you don’t need at all.
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