Screenwriting 101: Nancy Meyers

“My first draft was exactly 250 pages. I didn’t have brads long enough to get through the script. It took me about eight or nine drafts to edit. How do you do it? It’s impossible to see what it is at first. You just keep taking away and taking away, and it begins to shape up. You just keep following the story.”

--Nancy Meyers

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