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- From: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
- Subject: screenwriting
- Message-ID: <Bu8M2v.DCF@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:11:19 GMT
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- I have been trying to learn about screenwriting lately and I just discovered
- this newsgroup, and I want to say I have learned as much from reading
- 10-15 articles on here as I did from the goofy scriptwriting books for
- which I paid $7.95. This leads to my first question: what do you read
- after Syd Field's standard book? I skimmed through three others and they
- seemed almost exactly the same.
- I think what I most need to know is how writers do their top-down work. that
- is, suppose you have a general idea of what is going to happen in a scene
- and what characters are in it. How do you go from that do the specifics?
- Do writers sometimes roleplay their characters to come up with dialogue?
- I wish the screenwriting books I'd read had more about specifics about this.
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- Can someone tell me what Robert Towne did to the Godfather?
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- Robert Chao
- Oakland, California
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