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Kawan Glover
This screenwriter want to know...

Good morning all!

I'm a writer, through and through. So much that I hardly ever post outside the writer's room. However, yesterday I was listening to a podcast, which got me thinking. And all that thinking formulated the following questions.

As a writer, what are the things I can do to make directors'...

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Ingrid Wren

Thank you for this thread... now I'm beginning to understand what "allow the director to breathe" means.

Kawan Glover

@kyle yep I totally get it!

Rosalind Winton

Hmmmm. Think I'd better think it out again.... I might have too much detail in my screenplay. When describing a room, I have 'a rustic wood table and two chairs and an old matress on the floor' (but I...

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Kawan Glover

That might work @Rosalind

Doug Nelson

I'm sure you can trim it a little. If we know we're in a wilderness cabin already, then the INT. can read "Sparse, rustic table and chairs. Mattress on floor." 'Wood' & 'two' are redundant. I wouldn't...

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