JMS: Writing and Beats.

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Subject: JMS: Writing and Beats.
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+  1: Jun 24, 1996: tmclean at chat.carleton.ca (Tom McLean)
*  2: Jun 25, 1996: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)

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From: tmclean at chat.carleton.ca (Tom McLean)
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	Say, I just got back from a week-long intro to scriptwriting
workshop where they told us all about beats.  I was wondering if, in the
writing of your scripts, you follow the odd-number beat rule?  

-Tom

<Life's only certainty is death> Thus began the morbid years.

Email address: tmclean at chat.carleton.ca
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
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"I was wondering if, in the writing of your scripts, you follow the
odd-number beat rule?"

Nope.  Don't even know what that is.  I hate rules and generally avoid
them.  TV writing has too many of them, used by too many people, creating
formulaic writing.  




 jms



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