
How to Transition from Playwriting to Screenwriting
Write Your Screenplay Podcast
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Screen Writing Is a Very Different World Than Play Writing
Unlike playwrights, whoare almost universally have solo credit a on the writing of their plays, there is usually a whole flock of writers involved in a screen play. Most of the money that screen writers make is not even from spescript sales any more. It's from re writing jobs and work for higher jobs. I in screen writing, we really have to capture what we're going to see. Now this mean directing the work on the page, right? Your job is not to capture the shot so you can take a deep breath. You don't have to know a hundred different camera angles. In fact, you're better off not knowing them and not putting them in manuscript.
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