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The Dickens of Detroit (Elmore Leonard)
Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaSince for the last few days I’ve been kicking around Michigan on this blog I thought I’d pull a quote from Detroit writer Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, 3:10 to Yuma). In the above video Leonard talks about how he usually starts writing based on characters. “Who’s good in this [story] and who’s bad ? That’s [...]
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