The blog for the book The Pixar Touch posted a great compilation of tweets from Emma Coates distilling gems from her senior colleagues on creating great stories. The blog gives you 22 examples of her tweets. They are fantastic. For example:
#2: You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.
After reading hundreds of scripts from so many different writers over
the years, I would like to paste this one on
the wall above every screenwriter's computer.
The one I committed to memory for myself was this succinct nugget:
#19: Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.
Check them out and share your favorites. Follow her on Twitter.
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