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

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How to Outline a Dramatic Script

Dramatic writing is an extremely stripped down literary form. It demands complete economy mostly because it's a performance medium. If the big bones of your story don't work dramatically then nothing else you add to it is going to matter. Once you get that working then you layer in a little more detail. Then you take Act 1 and break it down into sequences. There's two to five sequences in an Act and two to five scenes in a sequence.

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