150 Screenwriting Challenges
by Eric Heisserer
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appears in Screenplay and Screenwriting.
Writer/director Eric Heisserer has collected 150 specific exercises to help screenwriters develop and hone their skills in dialogue, character, story, idea generation, and rewriting. Hi. I'm Eric, and I'm a working screenwriter, which is a dressedup way of saying it's how I pay the rent. I started writing for the chance at paying the rent with it ...
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