More “Screenwriting Tips… You Hack”
More tips from the blog of script reader Xander Bennett Screenwriting Tips… You Hack:
Screenwriting Tip #63
This overwrought failure of an action paragraph is twelve lines long, and presumably contains a lot of important action. I say ‘presumably’ because I stopped reading after five lines.
Screenwriting Tip #60
Oh dear god… You gave everyone in your script a nickname, then used their real names for the character titles and their nicknames in the dialogue. Bad newbie writer. Bad!
Screenwriting Tip #56
People with bullets in their gut probably shouldn’t be running around, fighting or driving vehicles.
But wait!
What’s this?
Xander invited his readers to provide guest posts?!?!
Let’s dip into what actual pre-pro screenwriters have to say about us / you / them.
Guest Post Week: Tip #20
Please, please, please make your first page interesting, grammatical, and properly spelled. It’s just one page. One lousy page. Is that really too much to proofread?
-tip by Elizabeth
Guest Post Week: Tip #15
Good villains have something to gain. Great villains have something to prove. Your villains have no comprehensible reason for doing anything.
-tip by anthuswilliams
Guest Post Week: Tip #10
Although your main character may seem like a ‘typical average joe’, use something else for their character description. If I wanted to spend 120 minutes with a ‘typical average joe’, I’d hang out with my friends.
-tip by Andrew
Phew! A lot of hostility out there in the screenwriting wannabe world!
Just sell a damn spec script, cash your check, and get happy already!
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