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SCREENWRITING TIPS: 5 Reasons Why Not to Write What You Know

Christopher Rice indulges us with his experiences as a professional Hollywood story analyst with first hand knowledge of what not to do.

…You’ll most likely be told to write what you know from dozens of screenwriting books, screenwriting professors, seminars, fellow students, and probably even strangers while preparing to write a screenplay, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned as a story analyst in Hollywood, it’s this:

If we all wrote what we knew on a first hand physical experience level, we’d be bored out of our minds!

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