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Screenwriter & Script Consultant @JimmyRGeorge 🎥 Producer of 7 Feature Films 🎬 Want actionable advice to improve your screenplay? I can help!

[Script Butcher 📄🔪 @ScriptButcher]

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[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

Emerging writers often struggle with spatial relationships in their screenwriting.

We create images of the scene in the reader's mind, whether we like it or not.

In doing so, we also establish spatial relationships. This person is here. This person is there. This object is there.

If the writer is not controlling this, they may have a different image than the reader.

The easiest way to highlight that confusion is an action that defies the spatial relationship the reader has in their mind.

"Wait, how did he get there?" "They kiss? Wasn't he behind the door?" "Why doesn't he just pull her up?"

All that effort to get the reader to feel the emotion of the moment is wasted because the reader is trying to figure out how the moment happened instead.

[Jamie Nash @Jamie_Nash]

When I started to write, there was a FREE site called https://t.co/k7dppvvvTj (Coppolla created). It was great. For every 3 scripts you reviewed/rated you were allowed to post 1 of your own. Coppola's people lurked and reviewed higher-ranked scripts. The site did a few things

[Mizz Marsha @MizzMarshaS]

A very important article to read on using the internet.

[Matt Altman @MattAltman2]

Write your spec

https://t.co/B3ylqjdOP1

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

Do you struggle with character introductions in your screenwriting?

You've read brilliant intros in the past, and it's easy to put tremendous pressure on yourself to be brilliant here, too.

But don't. If it comes, great! But it's more important to be effective.

Here's how: 👇

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

The more we know of the protagonist's expectations for the future, the more punch it will have when events shatter them.

This is especially effective at the inciting incident.

Your story can take it in either direction. From someone expecting nothing, to someone expecting everything.

For any story that rocks their world in the beginning, what you want out of your screenwriting is to affect them emotionally.

The more desperate they are, the more we will buy desperate choices.

[Timothy Faceneck @ThunderGruntBob]

NEW SCRIPT PODCAST! @Jamie_Nash @JimmyRGeorge and Myself tackle EVIL DEAD II! We talk about Raimi's rules of horror, types of horror, good news/worse news techniques and more!
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[Brad M Johnson @RWWFilm]

The Grey List is a deep reservoir of talented writers and market-ready projects.

If you're in the market, check out the list through my pinned tweet - or DM me directly, and I'll email it to you.

[Jimmy George @JimmyRGeorge]

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[Danny Manus @DannyManus]

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[Jonathon E. Stewart @JEStew3]

Hey screenwriting friends—and anyone who puts forth work of any kind to be critiqued, really—let’s talk about notes for a second.

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[Danny Manus @DannyManus]

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[Jimmy George @JimmyRGeorge]

Live near Austin, Texas?

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This Friday Oct 18th @ 7:00 PM

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Doors open at 7. Tickets $10

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[Nick “Goopy” Bannister @Deep_Cut_Films]

SUBURBAKNIGHT

After an incubus moves in next door, a struggling antique salesman enlists a B-movie star to help him save his wife - and his marriage - before the demon devours the entire neighborhood, one bored housewife at a time.

Top 4% on Coverfly

#screenpit #horror #comedy

[Jimmy George @JimmyRGeorge]

BUMP!

[Jimmy George @JimmyRGeorge]

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[Ash Lazer @AshLazerWrites]

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[Timothy Faceneck @ThunderGruntBob]

NEW SCRIPT PODCAST! @Jamie_Nash @JimmyRGeorge celebrate the #Beetlejuice legacy sequel by discussing the script to Tim Burton's 1988 original! We talk tone, genre busting, reverse rooting resumes and more!

listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/L52mQ0LzYH

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

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[Jonathon E. Stewart @JEStew3]

As we angst over every comma placement, capitalization and WE SEE in our screenplays, consider this real-time feedback on a rewrite from a 20-year senior level studio exec yesterday:

“They’re not even going to read all these words.”

#screewritingtwitter #writingcommunity #writerslift

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