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 not obvious.

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