Writing Tip: Don’t stand in water where you should be fishing

I use fishing as a metaphor for one’s approach to screenwriting. Seriously.

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It’s Saturday morning and I am here, seated amidst a half-dozen other men, my brother, and my ten year-old son at Murray’s Fly Shop in Edinburg, Virginia. We have gathered to fish on the Shenandoah River. But before we dive into our waders, we have to be schooled in the ways of the…