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“The spirit of the spec”

The creative empowerment of writing a spec script.

Scott Myers

20 May 2017
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“The spirit of the spec”

The creative empowerment of writing a spec script.

You get an idea.

You act on your idea.

You write your story.

You put it out there.

And if it doesn’t sell…

This is what I call the spirit of the spec.

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