A Top Hollywood Screenwriter Lays Down His 10 Rules for Your Script

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In his book, How to Write Groundhog Day, the man who wrote the legendary movie shares the story behind the film and his secrets for aspiring screenwriters. Here, his Top 10 rules for writers.

Published Oct. 20 2012 4:45AM EDT

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Last summer another list of writing rules popped up, this one in a Sunday edition of The New York Times.

The comfort of rules can be very important to a writer’s motivation because telling them the truth (there are no rules and nobody knows anything) is for most people not useful...

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A Top Hollywood Screenwriter Lays Down His 10 Rules for Your Script

In his book, How to Write Groundhog Day, the man who wrote the legendary movie shares the story behind the film and his secrets for aspiring screenwriters. Here, his Top 10 rules for writers.

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Danny Rubin