
23. Jim Mercurio - Author of "The Craft of Scene Writing"
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The Level of the Story Teller Is This?
i think one thing that keeps letters back from success is most ers don't know how to rewrite that well. And the very first time youve become a good rewriter, it's because you've tried over and oer and over again. If i read an open sentence of a script, and then there's an extra adjective and there's two words at the end that don't belong or are necessary, i'm like, the level of the story teller is this? That doesn't mean your script's not great, but it may mean your script’s not going to get read.
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