Writing Tip: Why You Should Write Three Pages of Garbage Every Day

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
5 min readSep 10, 2023

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“Freewriting forces you to keep moving forward, keep creating, without a thought given to quality.”

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I have been a screenwriter for thirty-seven years and a teacher for two decades, and along the way, I have talked with, interviewed, and worked with quite literally thousands of writers. If there’s one concern which keeps cropping up in those…

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