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A Missing Trick from The Bag of Tricks: How Writers Can Meet Their Characters Before They Write Them

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My recently released book, The Film Director’s Bag of Tricks: How to Get What You Want from Writers and Actors, was obviously designed for directors. But this book is only one leg of the triangle. How about: Actors getting what they need from directors and writers? Or how about: Writers getting what they need from directors and actors? Sounds like two more books. I could start a series like Chicken Soup for the Soul. I’m not about to do that but I do want to talk about something very important that is not in the book: How writers can meet...

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