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I received an email from a graduate student
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Jeanne Veillette
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Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book, Slavery
by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking
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PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.
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In this week's screenwriting tip, Ross Brown
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they say and offers tips on showing instead of telling.
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By Ross Brown
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Show, don’t tell. It’s one of the classic
adages about writing. And yet I find many of my students aren’t clear what it
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description? Am I supposed to throw in gratuitous action scenes?
No. “Showing” means several things. It means actively dramatizing character
traits rather than merely writing them in the description of the character or
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Jeanne Veillette
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Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book, Slavery
by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking
Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and
PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.
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