Fixing the Worst Scene in Your Screenplay (exclusive ebook)

There’s a well-known Howard Hawks quote that goes: ‘A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes’. Casting aside its direct meaning, it also hits on an interesting truth about all screenplays, even the best ones: they’re inconsistent. To an extent, that’s fine. It’s hard to make a pure exposition scene as engaging as your best set-piece or your most character-rich dialogue. And, as long as everything works in tandem, the overall screenplay can usually weather it. But,

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