Tip and Quote of the Week: Kill the Widows

Killing Widows

If you have any action lines or dialogue lines that result in widows – that is, one word, dangling lines – rewrite it to take up one less line.

For an easy, quick read, this will make a big difference.

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs,
is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
- Dr. Suess

Sources: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/editing and http://www.screenplay.com/default.aspx.

A former Hollywood Lit Manager, Michael Ferris started ScriptAWish.com as a way to help other writers get their foot in the door and has helped several writers sell their scripts (like Travis Beacham of PACIFIC RIM) and set up projects with producers like Academy Award Winner Arnold Kopelson. The mission of ScriptAWish.com is to help aspiring writers get their scripts into shape and then get their foot in the door. His new venture is a collaboration with several professional screenwriters called StudioGhostwriters.com and is intended to help producers get their movie ideas on paper or their drafts polished for production.

I got this picture here.