Unveiling Jeffrey Lieber: The Untold Secrets Behind His Masterful Storytelling
Again, the most important part of any script is the first ten pages. It is the thing that you can write, and rewrite, and show someone, and wordsmith, and adjust and readjust. There’s no amount that you can do that to because it’s really the hump you’ve got to get everyone over.
They have to trust you as a writer. They have to trust the story, and they have to buy into the characters. If you can do that in ten pages they’ll read forward. That’s why I say, once I’ve decided that there’s someone out there who I find interesting, I’ll read ten pages of anything they’ve written and give them a shot.
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