| The writing in this book was originally done for television.S.J. Perelman said the only difference in writing for televisionis that to make it look like a script, you only write on theright-hand side of the paper. There are other differences,though. Words written for television are meant to be heard by theear, not seen by the eye: People don t talk the way they writeand they don t write the way they talk, so you have to makesome adjustments. When a writer puts it down on paper, he smore concise than he d be in conversation. He cuts out a lotof the hemming and hawing and backtracking that all of us dowhen we talk. This saves everyone time but the writer. Hethinks out what he s going to say in advance and then tries tostick to the point. When the same writer puts words down to be spoken bysomeone on television, on a stage or in a motion picture, he |
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