Unveiling the Untold Secrets Behind the Screenplay of ET. AL. – A Review That Will Change How You See the Story
RYDER
EMERY
You are murdering a reader’s head if you use these two names for main characters in your story. They have THREE of the same letters in them – E, Y, and R – and they are the exact same length. What that means is that your reader is going to have to constantly double-check who’s speaking. Because as your eyes are moving down the page to read dialogue, those two names look exactly the same.
Advanced screenwriters don’t make this mistake. And it’s not as small of a deal as you might think. The big goal of screenwriting is to have the reader disappear into the story so deeply that they’re no longer aware that they’re even reading anymore. And if your reader is constantly having to stop to check who’s speaking, they can’t do this.
