All right, we're going to cover writing style. So as a writer, your job is to make sure you make your script enjoyable to read, easy to understand and easy to visualize on the big screen, you're going to have to make your script a page turn, and you're going to use the present tense when describing the action. word choices aren't going to have to be precise, is essential that your wording allows the reader to see the movie in their mind. That means you will have to know in your mind where everything takes place, who is where and what they're saying and what they're doing. You cannot risk confusing the reader about what's going on. You're making a blueprint for a movie and that means what is being read has to be easily understood so they can be made.

If you if you can shave words out of your sentences and dialogue and still keep the accurate information in it. You must say more with less. There's one more thing you will do and that is Thou shall not bore the reader. You will use precise words to make vivid sentences Which will become visually engaging scenes of your heart to put down script. So go online and download scripts of famous films. We the ones that won Oscars or nominate, read the scripts of your favorite films and study the wording and compare with.

Okay. Go online and download scripts of famous films. Read the ones that win Oscars were nominated. read the scripts of your favorite films and study how they're worded. And compare that with how you write. After you do that, and after you write your first draft, you will get down to the business of editing it, which is that's where the real fun begins.

So, you think you wrote the next award winning script? You read it over and you have your trusted friends read it, and you realize you've written a steaming pile of crap. Now, what would you do is you listen to all the feedback and see why things aren't working. One of the main things that can derail your script is spelling Folks, that feeling kills everyone. It makes me look sloppy and uncaring about the reader. It comes off as lazy.

It also sends a signal to the reader that if something as easy as running a spellcheck wasn't done, what about the story? What about the plot? You know, the really difficult things to write. So what you do is you go back and you correct everything. Read your script out loud, it's better to wince. Now, instead of later, that you read it again, you can see more mistakes or your trust readers still are not blown away, fix it until it does.

Being a screenwriter also entails getting tougher, tried to look for criticism, seek it and listen to the feedback. It's the attitude to have so that your characters can have a better life. Once you have gone over your script and feel you can't do anything extra to make it any better, you're done. Put it away for a bit and then read it later. And if there's still nothing more to do to improve When you're done done, then you send it to whomever wants it, or whoever would want it. Then what you do next is raise your imagination file and you start another script.

So that's basically it on editing and writing it to make it more readable. Up next, we're going to cover procrastination. So I'll see you in the next course.