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Cutting words on Bandit Girls

So much of writing is a wordage game that it always kills me to cut in the first draft. Dammit, Jim! I’m a writer, not a … word-destroyer person… Anyway, so that hurt, but what ended up happening is that though I cut out an 11000-word sequence, I had always Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, 13 yearsNovember 27, 2012 ago
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Writers, writers groups, and writing wonkery

I’ve submitted the screenplay and now can forget about it until whenever the results start coming back. This is a relief, a lifted weight. I was thinking tonight, okay, now I can start on a new project, and move forward. At Cryptopolis tonight we critiqued a chunk of one member’s Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, 14 years ago
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Austin Film Festival screenplay submission

On a whim a couple of years ago I urged my writers group, Cryptopolis, to all enter the screenplay competition held by the Austin Film Festival. My reasoning: we were all writing novels; a screenplay had to be easier since it was only dialog, right? That sound is the sound Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, 14 years ago

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