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Joseph Dougherty on Dialogue

The Writers Panel

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The Importance of Confidence in Writing

Only that character can say that line right that's what you're looking for ideally in every line. I've ever come to bopping anybody in a writer's room was when there was an exposition issue and someone in the room said well why don't we just go past a newspaper stand? And I said no, we will have no spinning headlines on this television program. That is no I draw the line somewhere. There has to be some other way to do this. You know who does it great that you can point to outside of some of those influences that we've already talked about. They're like the masters like Alvin Sergeant and Goldman William Goldman. It gives you a tremendous freedom because you

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