Put Your Butt in the Chair and Keep It There

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Put Your Butt in the Chair and Keep It There

Sometimes fun, sometimes torturous, writing a feature-length screenplay takes devotion. “Put your butt in the chair and keep it there,” best simply explains how one finishes a scene, five pages, an act, reaches FADE OUT, rewrites, and polishes a screenplay. The next time you start to procrastinate, repeat these ten words, “Put your butt in the chair and keep it there.”

   

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