all the good ones have been taken.
the mythical orthodoxy of screenwriting
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"Don't use adverbs in your exposition." Yet I always see them used in professional scripts. The first ten pages of the script "Sideways" contains: Instantly, fitfully, hurriedly, finally, carefully, blandly.
Why do the gurus deliberately, repeatedly, and carefully warn us that such verbalism undoubtedly screams amateur. Many pros contstantly do it.
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The prohibition against '-ing' verbs as in: Bob is nodding off when the telephone rings and wakes him.
But that's not just true of screenwriting. And I forgot we're not discussing the rules. Never mind.
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