Screenwriting From Iowa

Long before Diablo Cody wrote Juno in a Starbucks in a Minneapolis suburb, and before Nick Schenk wrote Gran Torino at Gumpy’s Bar in Minneapolis another screenwriter from Minnesota had jumped into the scene with his first script Grumpy Old Men
Screenwriter Mark Steven Johnson is another example of talent coming from a small town in [...]

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“Any character who is going to drive the story has to grab and hold the audience’s attention at all times. There must be no dead time, no treading water, no padding in the story (and no more metaphors to hammer home the point). Whenever your lead character gets boring, the story stops.”
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