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How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make

by Denny Martin Flinn · 1999

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All good screenplays are unique, but all bad screenplays are the same. Flinn's book will teach the reader how to avoid the pitfalls of bad screenwriting and arrive at one's own destination intact.

Themes
writersmovies
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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