
48 | Connecting Craft To Money And Career (As Screeenwriters)
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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How to Write the Cleanest, Tightest First Draft
An original pilot is setting up a ton but you know it's easier to adjust i think when you're writing a pilot then in a feature yeah uh this next question is super quick which is tips for writing the cleanest, tightest first draft possible so that revisions feel like smoothing out a rug and not stitching it together from patchwork. I have sat in the room with multiple academy actors directors producers directors ever they all write first drafts but don't work actors are you give it to an actor and they blow it up 15 drafts in like everybody knows it's a process it is not your value you can't this there's no such thing as this fairy tale first draft i say
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