It may come as a shock to you, but your success as a film scriptwriter probably depends less on your skill with words than it does on your ability to deal with people.
How so? Because scriptwriting is no ivory tower occupation. Too much money is involved in filmmaking for that—so much it makes people in power nervous. Result: They’re forever looking over your shoulder: picking holes in your work, shooting angles.
This is true in both fact and feature fields. The scene of the battle ordinarily is a small meeting known as a story conference, in which your script project is dissected and discussed in an effort to produce the best (or at least the most profitable) product possible. To that end, you sit down ...
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