The Business of Screenwriting: Selling Scripts and Shooting Scripts
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3 min readJun 25, 2020
There are two key stages in the life of a screenplay: There is the selling script and the shooting script.
A selling script can be a beautiful thing to behold, every word precise, the balance of black ink to white space pleasing to the eye, the flow of dialogue to action crafted just so, all a reflection of a screenwriter’s incessant drive to create an entertaining story that makes for a good read. Something like this:
