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143 | Where To Begin As A Screenwriter (Pt. 2)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Write an Evocative Beat Sheet

I don't do beat sheets because I don't, they don't work for me because it feels like I have to be very analytical. A beat sheet though could be a campfire story. Andrew Stanton writes these beginning beat sheet kind of things, but he calls them a scriptment. He is beating out the big movements of the character and the relationships.

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