What goes into writing a great movie script?

Primary characters must change polarities. Secondary characters can change less.

Research the facts and then throw away the research.

Leave holes. Write and unwrite. Put it in, take it out.

Mars’ Mysterious Dark Streaks Are NOT Caused by Water! Here’s the Real Story - The Daily Galaxy

Learn to tell a story orally and not through writing. Try telling your story to a friend.

Get up there yourself. Be in a movie. Take some acting (not writing) classes. Learn how a trained actor approaches a text. Learn why actors take roles. They do as much if not more than the writer does.

Maintain a slush pile/idea file. When you are ready to write, choose the best seeds to plant.

Is a narcissist capable of understanding the damage and the hurt that they have caused in your relationship?

Don’t direct from the page. Everyone, from the director on down, wants to be part of the process of making movies. Let them do their work.

A scene should change valence from beginning to end. Up to down, down to up.

Actors give better feedback than writers do.

Swimmer's itch: What it is and how to treat it - kare11.com

The DSM 5 is a wonderful character compendium.

All rules are made to be broken, but you damn well better know WHY you’re breaking them.

A critical function of storytelling is wish fulfillment. This is why video games are so popular. “That protagonist is JUST LIKE ME.”

Does a person with schizophrenia hear voices?

Write in reverse time. Major characters need to change polarity; minor characters may remain the same at the end.

Outline everything. Use story beats. Keep character’s mouths taped up, until they absolutely MUST speak. Write the script and the dialogue at the last minute, after you’ve revised the hell out of the outline.

Audiences are smarter than you think. Something about turning down the house lights makes their IQs go up.

Which other countries have implemented home appliance trade-in schemes?

To develop a unique voice for each character, try interviewing your characters.

Conflict is your power source; without it you have no drama and hence no script.

People choose what to see based on the high concept. Make sure to deliver an ending consistent with the high concept -- it is what the audience paid for.

Sony responds to concerns about Nintendo Switch 2 impacting PlayStation’s business - Nintendo Everything

Only God gets it right the first time. Rewrite everything.

Cut everything that is not a payoff, or a setup for a specific payoff. “Omit needless words.” Think about the sparseness of joke telling, or Grimm Brothers.

Your primary job is to create situations. Modern actors will fuck up your dialogue, despite whatever your contract says.

I am still studying engineering. I feel worried being an average student. Can I get a good job in placement, buy a house, and a car? I don't know why I feel this.

Make sure to pack enough explosives into the rocket.

Use status to help drive conflict. King Lear/fool. Upstairs/downstairs.

What you leave unwritten is as important as what you write. SUBTEXT.

PSG vs Inter: Opta Supercomputer Champions League Final Prediction - Opta Analyst