To write omnisciently as a screenwriter often entails, for better or worse, including elements that may never show up onscreen: jokes in descriptions or insights into characters’ thoughts and histories that only a reader will ever truly experience and appreciate. Yet many screenwriters still choose to write omnisciently. Whether or not it’s actually ‘good form’ to do so for the screen is contentious. Some do it; some eschew it. INT. AUDITION WAITING ROOM A bored RECEPTIONIST stares ahead at her
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