Go On Your Own Quest, Week 20: First Draft

Several readers emailed me about aggregating the entire series of posts we have been running in association with the Go On Your Own Quest initiative.

Here is Week 20: First Draft.

“Bad movie dialogue speaks in complete sentences” [Paul Thomas Anderson]

“Every scene should advance the story” [Philip Dunne]

“Each scene must be a drama in itself” [Jeanie Macpherson]

“Never be boring” [David Mamet]

“Movies are short for moving pictures” [Angelo Pizzo]

Just 4 more weeks to go!

For background on “Go Into The Story: The Quest,” go here and here.

For all the previous weeks of Go On Your Own Quest posts, go here.

Join the GOYOQ Forums, a free online hub where you and other Quest participants can go to support each other and share your stories. Go here.

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