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141 | Television Writing Foundations w/ Javier Grillo-Marxauch

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Don't Stop the Fun Train When Writing

If our exposition starts to feel like a chore we've hopped off the fun train. Action sequences are what happens when words will no longer suffice the pitch of the emotions people can no longer talk to each other so they must punch each other you know. The best action sequence ever is the truck chase from Indiana Jones because it's a number of three act plays put within a sequence.

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