Screenwriting tips to help writers refine their scripts:
• Use a secondary character to impart information about the main character.
• Revise or delete scenes that are too similar to eliminate stagnant moments in your story.
• Remove editing commands such as "Cut To" and "Dissolve To" from your script.
• Know the difference between a writer's "writing" script vs. a "shooting" script.
• In your scene, have your character need to know something instead of being told of something.
• Emphasize the main actions but avoid breaking down the character's every movement. • We sell a movie with external conflict but the audience really cares for internal conflict.
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