Unlocking Ernest Lehman’s Hidden Screenwriting Secrets: What Hollywood Doesn’t Want You to Know
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“I think that much of good screenwriting is about carpentry. It’s a juggling of beginnings, middles and endings so that they all inevitably seem to be moving correctly together. Your first draft is dangerously important. Don’t ever kid yourself into thinking, ‘It’s okay, it’s just the first draft.’ Beware of that thought, because it’s ten times more difficult to go in a certain direction once you’ve already gone in another direction. The longer you can hold off putting a word down on paper, the better you are. Think about it for another day before you start writing. Rewriting is largely cleaning up things that aren’t clear to you, or trying to shorten a scene that’s too long, or realizing now that you’ve written scenes at the end of the story, maybe the scenes at the beginning should be a little different to help set up a scene that comes at the end.”
— Ernest Lehman
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