Rescripting

Screenplays improve with every rewrite. You can spend your lifetime rewriting the perfect script. Unfortunately, no one will ever find it if you're dead.
        - S.R. Lundin


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Calling a Screenplay

Calling a screenplay a template is like calling sheet music an outline.

        - S.R. Lundin


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End of Editing

Publication: The end of editing and beginning of revision.

- S.R. Lundin


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Writing is to Reading

Writing is to reading what cooking is to eating.
   - S.R. Lundin


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Baby Pictures

Seeing your first screenplay is like seeing baby pictures of you in a diaper.

   - S.R. Lundin


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Roaches

Writing errors are like roaches. If you find one, you can be sure hundreds more lie hidden in your manuscript.
        - S.R. Lundin


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Shortening your Screenplay

Shortening your screenplay is like selling your possessions. You save the best for last.

                  - S.R. Lundin

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To Be Done

To be done writing is to be done living.

    - S.R. Lundin


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Day Without Writing

A day without writing is like a day without family.

    - S.R. Lundin


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When Writing

Feeling the emotions of your characters is as natural as laughing when you're happy or crying when you're sad.
      - S.R. Lundin


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Love What You Do

If you write every day with something to say,

You'll love what you do and not throw it away.
                - S.R. Lundin


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Two Parts Decision

Recipe for Writer's block: One part enthusiasm, two parts decision, and three parts procrastination.

- S.R. Lundin


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Screenplay to Movie

Screenplay is to movie what grin is to smile.  
    - S.R. Lundin


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From Novel to Screen

Going from novel to screen requires a thousand decisions about what to cut and what to keep. Thankfully, the answer to one simple question helps every time: Does it (the scene) forward the story? Yes? Keep it. No? kill it. Not sure? Cut it. When you master the movement of story you reduce adapting to a problem of time. Unfortunately, no one has a solution for time.
             - S.R. Lundin



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Failure Lacks Endurance

Keep writing. Failure lacks endurance. - S.R. Lundin


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Rushed Writing

Rushed writing is slow work.
                       - S.R. Lundin


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Writing is Work

Writing is work without pay and a boss.
                               - S.R. Lundin

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Grammar Rejected

If text and texted, but flex and not flexted, then grammar rejected.
        - S.R. Lundin


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Stop writing, start dying? Maybe, but it smacks of beginner's belief. So what really happens when a writer quits writing? May you never know.

                   - S.R. Lundin


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One Quote a Day

One quote a day keeps writing in play.
- S.R. Lundin


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