by Trevor Mayes | Jun 10, 2022 | Formatting, Modern Craft, Scene Headings, Screenwriting Basics |
I’ve been seeing this mistake a lot lately in the scripts I’ve been proofreading. The writer will use SAME when they mean CONTINUOUS. They are not the same thing and have very different uses. SAME TIME SAME (sometimes written as SAME TIME) means that the...
by Trevor Mayes | Feb 25, 2020 | Formatting, Modern Craft, Proofreading, Writing |
This one’s easy, right? Not so fast. Everyone knows that when you use INT. in a scene heading, it means “interior” and when you use EXT. in a scene heading, it means “exterior.” That much is straightforward. But what happens when you want...
by Trevor Mayes | Oct 9, 2019 | Action Lines, Modern Craft, Pet Peeves, Proofreading, Writing |
Week 3 This is a good one. And by good one, I mean a mistake I see all the time that drives me crazy. There’s mistakes See anything wrong with the above subheading? It should be: “There are mistakes,” right? You wouldn’t say, “There is...
by Trevor Mayes | Sep 2, 2019 | Action Lines, Dialogue, Modern Craft, Writing |
Barking up the wrong tree Sometimes, it’s the easy things that can trip you up in a script. Take yelling and screaming, for instance. Seems like it would be an easy thing to indicate, but there are some common problems I’m seeing in scripts that are...
by Trevor Mayes | Aug 27, 2019 | Dialogue, Modern Craft, Writing |
Streamline Screenwriting is all about streamlining things. Any redundancies have to go. Such is the case with interruptions. And I’m seeing this mistake a lot: DON’T DO THIS TED Gloria, I can’t be in all places at onc– ...
by Trevor Mayes | Aug 16, 2019 | Formatting, Modern Craft, Text Messaging, Writing |
Superman, I defy you! I’m a big fan of David Trottier, AKA “Dr. Format” and his books, “The Screenwriter’s Bible” and “Dr. Format Tells All.” I’m also really impressed by Christopher Riley’s book, “The...
