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Posted by: Don, January 13th, 2019, 3:55pm
86 the Special by Michael L Kennedy - Comedy, Sci Fi - Customers who come in right before closing are the worst, especially when they cause you to get sucked into an endless void.  100 pages - pdf format

Writer interested in feedback on this work

Posted by: eldave1, January 13th, 2019, 8:01pm; Reply: 1
Michael:


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INT. DINER - NIGHT

The diner is slightly dirty and mostly empty.


You never have to repeat your location in the description if it's in the header. e.g., the above should be:

INT. DINER - NIGHT

Slightly dirty and mostly empty.

Best to write actively. Avoid the "is"and "ings." e.g., this:


Quoted Text
A BUSBOY (19) is wiping down booths with a well-worn towel and a WAITRESS
(40) is marrying bottles of ketchup.


Reads better as:

A BUSBOY (19) wipes down booths with a well-worn towel and a WAITRESS
(40) marries bottles of ketchup.

This:


Quoted Text
A BEARDED MAN (40) is sitting by himself in a large booth. He
is in a back corner of the diner,


Better as:

A BEARDED MAN (40) sits by himself in a large booth in the back corner of the diner.
Posted by: ML, January 24th, 2019, 5:30pm; Reply: 2
Thanks to anybody who reads this thing.

The goal here was really to make things get progressively weirder every ten pages.

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