How To Write A Brilliant Scene

Have a look at this sketch from The Micallef P(r)ogram(me).

Sometimes it’s useful to see what bad writing would look like, and take it to the extreme just to highlight everything that’s wrong with it. If you haven’t learnt something from what you just watched, then it was a waste of your time watching it, and a waste of my time directing you to it.

Exposition it horrible to write, and painful to watch if done badly. I’d rather be confused for a bit than bored.

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