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Sounds Stupid

Rob Long finds some garbage in the street, and does what any writer would do. He criticizes it!

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By Rob Long • Feb 16, 2012 • 3m Listen

The other night I was out walking with my dog, and as I was bending over to scoop up her nightly HazMat, I noticed a couple of large index cards on the ground. The index cards had writing on them, and because I know that some writers – not me – use them to keep track of their story beats in a screenplay – I don't bother doing that – and as an aid to rethinking and reworking the structure of their script – I try never to rethink or rework, if I can help it – but because I'm also a writer, I was naturally curious to read what some other writer had on his or her index cards...

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