{"id":2335,"date":"2010-08-26T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2010-08-25T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T07:09:16","slug":"screenwriting-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/2010\/08\/26\/screenwriting-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Screenwriting Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scriptwriting Tips<\/a> offers daily advice in just a couple of lines, straight to the point, unlike me.<\/p>\n

Tips are oriented to scriptwriters. In many cases the author -who has habit of being crude for the sake of impact- simply points out an overused clich\u00e9. Half the times the tips are highly arguable. But quite often good ideas come up which are useful for any writer, and every once in a while a real gem finds its way through and deserves being quoted if only for its brevity.<\/p>\n

As an introduction, I offer a selection of the best tips from the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

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Good writing is when a character does something we weren\u2019t expecting, but which makes perfect sense given everything we know about that character.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Every scene should affect the protagonist in some way, either directly or incidentally. If not, you got yourself a dud scene. Doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s the funniest, scariest, most exciting scene in the script \u2014 it needs to go.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If your characters don\u2019t say horrible, soul-crushing things to each other during the dark point, you\u2019re doing it wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You don\u2019t have to start in media res<\/em>, but maybe you could do us all a favor and start at the not-boring part?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If only for the sake of commenting, I’ll keep posting here selections of their best advice as it gets published.<\/p>\n

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Scriptwriting Tips offers daily advice in just a couple of lines, straight to the point, unlike me. Tips are oriented to scriptwriters. In many cases the author -who has habit of being crude for the sake of impact- simply points out an overused clich\u00e9. Half the times the tips are highly arguable. But quite often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[39,44,53],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taller-literario","tag-consejo","tag-guion","tag-recomendacion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t