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How To Create A Tipping Point In Your Screenwriting Career

One of the most critical elements of success in any field, and especially, in Hollywood as a screenwriter, is to take consistent, directed action in moving forward toward your goal. Whether you are focused on marketing to literary agents, writing the best screenplay you possibly can, selling your script, getting a script review, or simply

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3 Ways To Open Your Pitch For Your Screenplay

When it comes time to market and sell your screenplay, you will need to learn to pitch your screenplay — both on paper and out loud. Some writers would rather put a spoon in their eye than pitch, but nevertheless, at some point you will need to pitch. One of the most difficult parts for

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Should I Put 1 or 2 Spaces Between Sentences?

In dialogue, how many spaces between sentences?  Are there 2 blank spaces between the period and the next sentence? Or 1 blank space? Actually, Guy, it’s a great question — one I reviewed extensively myself a few months back. The answer is that either is correct. However… It used to be in the days of typewriters with

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Is Your Screenwriting Too “On-The-Nose”

However, if any of those are the themes, it is too “on-the-nose,” as we call it, meaning there’s no subtlety. When something is a bit more subtle, it tends to have much greater appeal because it engages the mind of the reader-viewer more as they try to figure out what is going on since it’s

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