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Kill Your Darlings

Bloody good advice from a Hollywood screenwriter: For screenwriters, authors, and creators who are tired of going it alone and want a professional space to work.

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  1. Issue · Jul 17, 2026

    What Your First 10 Pages Are Really Saying About You (opens the original)

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    Jesus, I’ve read a lot of scripts. Stacks. Piles. Scripts delivered by messenger back when ‘messenger’ was an angry dude named Kyle who drove across LA with boxes filled with scripts sliding around the back seat of his ‘92 Corolla. Now that they arrive by email, it’s super efficient but lacks ceremony. I miss the brads, the crisp cover page, the coffee ring left by an exec who pretended to read it at the Coffee Bean on Sunset. Wherever they come from, scripts have one thing in common. If their f

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