The Business of Screenwriting: Page Count
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6 min readMay 28, 2020
The mysterious science of what happens when and where in feature film screenplay.
It is 1987. I have recently stumbled my way into Hollywood after selling a spec script. My introduction is a mystifying experience and as ignorant as I am about the ways of The Biz, I know this much: Having had zero formal training with screenwriting, I need to download everything about the craft as fast as I can.
Which is why I find myself in a Westwood movie theater watching a mindless action movie with my writing partner and a few of his USC grad…
