Thursday, November 27, 2008

An amazing student script

I just read one of the most amazing student scripts I've seen. She has mastered the hardest thing about screenplay rhetoric: how to write both with economy and style or authority. She has a very funny script!, wonderful characters and dialog, with lots of commercial potential. But here's the real challenge of screenwriting: story matters more than writing. So her wonderful screenwriting will keep the reader in the script but only long enough to see how the story develops. Storytelling matters more than writing, that's the hitch. But if this student can tell a story as captivating as her writing style, wow, she has a screenwriting career ahead of her big time.

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