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Just what you need to start off the week: 18 non-rules (because the Brode doesn’t believe in rules) guaranteed to bring your beloved pet TV or film project to a lowly and humiliating end.
1. Start without an outline and wing it.
2. Don’t bother having a central theme.
Speaking of grammar, as we were just a minute ago, Arika Okrent, the world’s pithiest grammarian, is back with one minute and 42 seconds of knowledge every writer should have.
On your mark, get set, GO!
That’s what you want to do, isn’t it? Build up your word muscles and write strong sentences? Ah, we knew it! Here’s a short article that addresses the situation. Or to put it more clearly: Here’s how to write sentence that work:
In my six semesters as an English major, this is the best thing I learned: When in doubt, 
put the best bit of a sentence at the end, the next-best bit at the beginning, and the rest in the middle. So in order of bestness, that’s 2, then 3, then 1.
What’s the “best bit”? It might be the bit that sounds prettiest. It might be the bit that gets at your larger point. It might be the most specific or surprising word.
Who among us hasn’t asked the question that is the headline of this post? And who among us has found a good answer?
Maybe, just maybe, you have. Right here and now, courtesy of this instructive video from Scott Kirkpatrick found on Film Courage’s YouTube Channel:
Scott’s book, Writing for the Green Light: How to Make Your Script the One Hollywood Notices is HERE
How about that headline? Clickbait or fact, what do you think?
Take a look and then let me know:
Truth to tell, el munchero found Gray Jones’ YouTube channel a very helpful site indeed, and – maybe more importantly – its very existence in this way, shape and form points out something every writer needs to know: