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I'm not sure if this has been brought up in the thread (It may be worth adding to the first post) but there's a great article on the writing style of one of my favourite writers - Walter Hill. I appreciate the English language as much as anyone, but what the article shows is how lean you can make a script while still making it vivid, and making it a good read. As Hill himself states, that style won't work for everything. But for the types of films he makes it works. http://www.mypdfscripts.com/writers-style-walter-hill/ He isn't verbose as such but that's not the point. It's all about choice of words. It's saying what you need to say in as few words as possible. The upside to that is it keeps everything flowing.
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Lethemonster posted:I'm struggling to go from prose to screenplay. If a few people could look over my script and give advice on what description elements to lose but still keep the atmosphere/perspective etc I would be grateful. It's a good topic to talk about in general since I switch between script and prose quite frequently and while I found that prose writing bleeds into script writing, weirdly I don't find the opposite to be true. I think the biggest danger is overwriting everything. The thing I found I was doing was adding too much to a character's description or a frame of mind. I don't feel like the dialogue really alters between the two because they seemed to serve the same function to me.
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