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How Stage 32 Helped Me Accomplish My Goals: Sometimes It Takes Years... Until It Doesn't
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How Stage 32 Helped Me Accomplish My Goals: Sometimes It Takes Years... Until It Doesn't

I wrote my first screenplay in my mid-twenties when Syd Field’s Foundations of Screenwriting was the major go-to for the craft. “Spa Wars” was a parody steeped in small-town politics and, of all things, an ongoing economic rivalry between two competing health clubs. Really tacky stuff. I requested script notes from Sam Havens, Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Solution: rewrite the damn thing. I did what most mystified young screenwriters d…

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