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#65 - Reader Red Flags: The Biggest Screenplay Mistakes Hiding In Plain Sight | Naomi Beaty
Naomi Beaty is one of the industry's top screenwriting consultants. As a former development executive at Madonna and Guy Oseary's Maverick Films, she worked on projects like Twilight, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and The Stanford Prison Experiment. Later, she worked with Blake Snyder on his second Save the Cat book, and taught Save the Cat story structure workshops in Los Angeles.
IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:
• How to fix the "boring protagonist" problem.
• Why scenes work in outline but fall flat on the page.
• Direct dialogue vs. on-the-nose dialogue.
• And why writer's block just…
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