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Screenwriting Tips from Billy Wilder
Act 1: You get your cat up a tree.
Act 2: You throw rocks at him.
Act 3: You get him down from the tree.
10 Screenwriting Tips from Billy Wilder
1. The audience is fickle.
2. Grab ‘em by the throat and never let go.
3. Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.
4. Know where you’re going.
5. The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points,...
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How To Write Pulp - Lester Dent
Here is Lester Dent’s Master Plot Formula. Thanks Mister Dent, and apologies to Savoy for us lifting it here! This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6000 word pulp story. It has worked on adventure, detective, western and war-air. It tells exactly where to put everything. It shows definitely just what must happen in each successive thousand words. No yarn of mine written to the...
