by Trevor Mayes | Oct 30, 2009 | Dialogue, Scenes, Style
Like exercising, screenwriting takes discipline. Before you sell your script, there’s no one there to police your scenes but you. As such, one of the most common mistakes writers make is they allow their scenes to binge on the Vegas-sized buffets of their...
by Trevor Mayes | Oct 29, 2009 | Style
“I’m your density.” – George McFly Are you still writing dense paragraphs of description in your script? You know what I mean. Those paragraphs that keep going and going like the Energizer Bunny. If so, it may be working against you. How long...
by Trevor Mayes | Oct 27, 2009 | Style
As brevity in screenwriting is so crucial, it’s extremely important to pick verbs that do more than just describe the action. In the rush to get that first draft of our script finished, we often plug in action words that we use every day in conversation or that...
by Trevor Mayes | Oct 26, 2009 | Style
Every day this week I’ll be posting a new article on common mistakes screenwriters make. Today’s topic is adverbs — you know, those flowery words that usually end in “ly.” Words like: quickly, haphazardly, vastly, very, annoyingly…...
