Lessons from 29 years of professional screenwriting and almost as long teaching it.
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Five ways to improve your Dialogue
The challenge is always the same. We must control the puppet strings of these characters so they perform the needs of the scene yet create the illusion of genuine agency.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”--Sanfo...
Don’t settle for just an okay scene.
“Nothing wrong with it” is not the same as “good.”
How to juice up a scene with YES/NO.
Map a scene's emotional rhythm using what the audience is rooting for. A great excuse to talk about RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK too.
So much of the screenwriting I read just kind of moves along.
How to know your ending.
What questions to ask before deciding how to end your screenplay.
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I have been writing screenplays professionally for 29 years and teaching the subject for nearly as long. Writer of 8 films, including WINCHESTER and others. I also teach at my beloved alma mater, The University of Houston. Go Coogs!
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