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Writing A Great Movie: Key Tools For Successful Screenwriting - Jeff Kitchen

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The Dramatic Power of Scripts and Stage Plays

If you lose the audience, then the dramatic power of the material fades. So it has to do with the stripped down nature of dramatic writing. It's a lot like dipping a fish in acid and pulling out just the bones. That's the bones are what make the story work. Everything else is unnecessary. Some of those unnecessary things can be little details that add flourish and flavor and color and breathe life into it. But most of it is distracting extra stuff, extra baggage. And if you're a good storyteller and have great craft as a dramatist, then you know what's necessary to make the stories work dramatically. If you're a rocket scientist and you can't make

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