Wednesday, May 23, 2007

A quick dialogue note...

If something horrific happens to one of your characters... he gets shot, or burned, or attacked with the Anal Intruder 2000*... there is no need to create a line of dialogue for the resulting scream. Just write "he screams in pain" in your stage description.

Writing something like....

OUR HERO
Aahhhhhh!!!!!!!


...is 500 pounds of silly, a tremendous waste of space, and will annoy the crap out of anyone who reads it.

That is all.


* (see: TOP SECRET!)

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