The problem with being a writer is that you have to be your characters.
You can’t write a charming character by saying they’re charming, you actually need to be charming and write them charming dialog. You can’t just state somebody is smart, you need to write smart things for them to say and do.
There is a recurring issue thatmany fanfic writers seem to have when it comes to punctuation and capitalization indialogue. When it’s a description of the way the character is speaking (she
said, he exclaimed, she giggled) and you aren’t using an exclamation point or a question…
A professional script reader read 300 screenplays for five different studios, all the while tracking the many recurring problems. The infographic he made with the collected data offers a glimpse at where screenwriting goes wrong.
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