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Out of either lack of knowledge, lack of experience, lack of confidence, or (sometimes) laziness, they will take a shortcut to create an effect rather than do the work to create the real thing. Ray Morton highlights some of those screenwriting gimmicks you should avoid.
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MEET THE READER: Into the Sunset - Screenwriting Gimmicks

By Ray Morton
Before you submit your script for coverage or critique, make sure your work is void of things that annoy script readers! Professional script reader, Brian O'Malley, shares insights into things script readers hate to see in a screenplay.
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20 Little Things That Make Script Readers Hate Your Screenplay

By Brian O'Malley
Ray Morton's process of screenplay analysis involves examining five key story components. In part two, he discusses the final key components.
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MEET THE READER: The Six Axes of Screenplay Analysis, Part 2

By Ray Morton
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MEET THE READER: "The End" - Importance of the Right Story Ending

By Ray Morton
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CRAIGSGRIST: Why Pay an Anonymous Script Reader When a Mentor Will Help Build a Career?

By Craig Van Sickle
MEET THE READER: Why Can't You Be Nice? by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: Why Can't You Be Nice?

By Ray Morton
WHY SPEC SCRIPTS FAIL: Antagonista Incognita* by Stewart Farquhar | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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WHY SPEC SCRIPTS FAIL: Antagonista Incognita*

By Stewart Farquhar
STORY BROADS: 36 Practical Tips on How Not to Irritate Your Script Reader by Asmara Bhattacharya | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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STORY BROADS: 36 Practical Tips on How Not to Irritate Your Script Reader

By Asmara Bhattacharya
MEET THE READER: 11 Reasons Why I Pass on a Screenplay by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenplay
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MEET THE READER: 11 Reasons Why I Pass on a Screenplay

By Ray Morton
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WHY SPEC SCRIPTS FAIL: No Hook, Part 2

By Stewart Farquhar
THE CRAFT : Considering Screenplay Coverage by Lee Jessup | Script Magazine #scriptchat
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MEET THE READER: Lessons Learned from Reading Too Many Spec Scripts

By Ray Morton
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WHY SPEC SCRIPTS FAIL: No Hooks

By Stewart Farquhar
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SUBMISSIONS INSANITY: 8 Surefire Ways To STOP Them Reading On Page 1

By Lucy V. Hay
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How to Please a Story Analyst

By Susan Kouguell
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WHY SPEC SCRIPTS FAIL: Adapt-A-Phobia – Part 3

By Stewart Farquhar
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The Wide Margin: My First Writing Course (A Fairy Story)

By Kevin Delin
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MEET THE READER: What I Look For

By Ray Morton
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Why Spec Scripts Fail: Relationships Not Consummated, PART 2

By Stewart Farquhar
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MEET THE READER: Screenplay Premises - 'It's Complicated'

By Ray Morton
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Meet the Reader: "Warning, Warning"

By Ray Morton
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My Favorite Baker's Dozen of Balls of Steel

By Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Give them what they want ... in the way they want it. Boom.
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Submissions Insanity #1: The Basics of Online Script Submissions

By Lucy V. Hay
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Notes From The Margins: Meet Danny Manus... Again

By Danny Manus
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Meet the Reader: Ten Points to Ponder When You Write

By Ray Morton