Re: part of an old screenplay i wrote
Joker, would you say on a whole that the bad ones were bad because of the struture, the dialogue, or both? I'd imagine both for most of them, but I just wonder how many you came across that had good dialogue, but bad plot structure, or vice versa.
Back in the day, after I left my career as a TV news reporter, I wrote a screenplay based on some of my experiences. Mostly to get them down on paper before I forgot.
I found dialogue writing to be extremely difficult, so I commend the OP for posting what he did, because I'd probably be embarassed to go back and read the dialogue I wrote, at this point.
After I wrote it, I sent it along to a few friends down in LA who work in various parts of the biz. They were generally surprised on how well I had structured the plot, hitting the plot points at the right time, the 3 acts and all that. I also took that to mean that the dialogue probably sucked. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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