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100 | 100 Lessons We've Learned About Writing

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Write a Table Read

Table reads can be a helpful way to hear your material read out loud. If you get notes scattered all through your script, ask yourself what in this engine of this story could be causing that symptom? What is the disease? Most notes trall back to act one, min ties into that a little bit. When doing a typo pass, do a find for double and triple spaces. You will be surprised how many times you accidentally hit that space bar. Act ones are fun to write. You got to go through the marshland of act two and get to act three and take a look at what you've got. And i promise you, your act one will dramatically shift.

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