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Note to screenwriters

Screenplays must be submitted as spec scripts, not shooting scripts, written in the lean style preferred today without mention of camera angles and without the rhetorical flourishes common to writing prose. For an example, see Spec Script Writing: An Annotated Example.

Also see my essays Talking Common Sense About Format And Style in screenwriting and The Most Serious Screenwriting Mistakes. C.D.