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    Top Ten Screenplay Rewrite Tips
    Top Ten Screenplay Rewrite Tips
    Top Ten Screenplay Rewrite Tips
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    Top Ten Screenplay Rewrite Tips

    By Jim Kalergis

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    "Top Ten Screenplay Rewrite Tips" is a quick and easy read, which offers a variety of insights into the rewrite process.

    There’s an old saying in the screenwriting trade:

    “Write from the gut and rewrite from the head.”

    And most writers do just that, which is why their first screenplay draft tends to be anything but a true “first” draft. Chances are, by the time a screenwriter is done writing “from the gut” and is ready to call that "first draft” a done deal, they’ve poured over their work, page-by-page, a dozen times or more.

    Next comes the challenge of rewriting “from the head” in the hope of realizing every last bit of the potential inherent in their original screen story vision. But there’s a problem... their first draft is already close to perfect... at least from their point of view. After all, why would they have written it any other way?

    In “Top Ten Screenplay Rewrite Tips” you’ll find a set of analytical tools intended to assist writers in making the transition from first draft, write-from-the-gut mode, to second draft write-from-the-head mode

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim Kalergis
    Release dateNov 22, 2012
    ISBN9781311757173
    Top Ten Screenplay Rewrite Tips
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    Jim Kalergis

    Two years teaching and writing educational materials, U.S. Army Signal Corp. Three years teaching and writing educational materials, RCA Institutes. Many years in the TV broadcast Industry--- editor, director, producer.. Screenwriting hobby became a profession in 2003. Screenplay assignment writer and story analyst/script-doc since 2005. Jim is a native of Lowell, Massachusetts, now living in the greater Los Angeles area.

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      Top Ten Screenplay Rewrite Tips - Jim Kalergis

      TOP TEN

      SCREENPLAY REWRITE TIPS

      By

      Jim Kalergis

      COPYRIGHT - 2012 by James Kalergis

      Published on Smashwords

      Formatted by eBooksMade4You

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      Smashwords Edition License Notes: This free ebook may be copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted and shared, provided it appears in its entirety without alteration, and the reader is not charged to access it.

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      Author contact information.

      Email: screenplayrewrite@earthlink.net

      Website: screenplayrewrite.com

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Tip # 1 - Kill your darlings!

      Tip #2 - Get spaced out!

      Tip #3 - Ask Mom!

      Tip #4 - Condense the soup!

      Tip #5 – Figure out what your story is really about!

      Tip #6 - Scout out new locations!

      Tip #7 - Bribe family and friends with pizza and beer!

      Tip #8 - Play tag!

      Tip #9 - Turn up the heat!

      Tip #10 - Make it personal!

      A Note From the Author

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      INTRODUCTION

      There’s an old saying in the screenwriting trade:

      Write from the gut and rewrite from the head.

      And most of us do. For that reason our first screenplay drafts tend to be anything but true first drafts. Chances are, by the time we’re done writing from the gut and ready to call that first draft a done deal, we’ve poured over it, page-by-page, a dozen times or more.

      Next comes the challenge of rewriting from the head in the hope of realizing every last bit of the potential inherent in our original screen story vision. But there’s a problem. After all those passes, our first draft is already perfect... at least

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