Tips on writing TV drama from David Mamet

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Wed, 2010-03-24 16:57

brooosh

Tips on writing TV drama from David Mamet

Even though the whole thing is in capital letters, this seems like good advice from David Mamet.

http://www.movieline.com/2010/03/david-mamets-memo-to-the-writers-of-the...

I copied and pasted the whole thing to my word processor and changed it to sentence case, because it was doing my eyes in.

Thu, 2010-03-25 18:30

Mangone

Thanks Brooosh! It's very interesting and informative. I agree that Mamet seems to give good advice. He doesn't beat around the bush either. "THE JOB OF THE DRAMATIST IS TO MAKE THE AUDIENCE WONDER WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. NOT TO EXPLAIN TO THEM WHAT JUST HAPPENED, OR TO *SUGGEST* TO THEM WHAT HAPPENS NEXT."

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