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How to Transition from Playwriting to Screenwriting 

Write Your Screenplay Podcast

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Grad School for Screen Writers

If you want to be a screan writer, going to grad school makes very little sense because it's going to saddle you with an amount of debt that doesn't make it safe for you to actually be an artist. In play writing, you can put the words and minimal action on the page and trust the the directors and the stars to work that out in rehearsal and figure out what it looks like. The other obvious difference that every playwright is nervous about is, oh my god, i've got to write all this action. And we've been talking about the idea of the cut as the most powerful tool when it comes to screen writing,. rather than the entrance and exit that works

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