35 | John August On Worldbuilding In Your Writing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Is There a Rule in Writing Scripts?
John: The only rule I have for myself and this is just because I used to be an executive who had to read you know whatever five scripts on the weekend or whatever so I know what that is. It's like I never, anywhere in the script, but especially in the first page put a giant huge block of description,. Because they're going to open it and go and then close it, because it's too visually much for them. People also get hung up but like, oh is that really OS or should it be Vio is like, it doesn't matter we understand what's happening here. Do you really need that continued? It does not matter. So I think I'm
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