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How A Writing Career Changes As You Get Older - Marc Scott Zicree

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You Don't Treat People as Disposable

You don't lose the characters because of what the plot is doing, you know. And asthet's and you don't throw them away either. Try not to rip off dialogue from other movies. If something's boring to you on the page, it'll be boring to everybody. So keep working on it until it works. Sometimes a scene doesn't work, and the only way to make it work is to get rid of it. You have to find your own voice. What do i care about? What do i know about? WhatDo i alone know what? It's a fantasy film once I said that - but in reality  it doesn't love his story at all.

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