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What Makes a Script Readable? by Dave Trottier

by Dave Trottier - keepwriting.com

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What makes a screenplay readable? For spec screenplays, it is not necessarily the producer, or the director, or even the actors. It is almost always the readers, those gatekeepers whose verdicts determine if anyone higher in the food chain takes a look. In this article, Dave Trottier explains what readability really means.

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