1. Print Your Script Out & Read It Before You're "Done"
This will perhaps sound somewhat unnecessary to many fo you, but it's something that works for me, so I'm opting to include it. When you read your script on a computer screen over and over again, you become familiar with it in a way that... well, in so that it doesn't ever feel "permanent" - you know you can change anything at at a moment's notice, because you can. That's the beauty of word processing. No harm done, right? But it helps to get your screenplay out of the computer and onto the page, because you begin to see it in a new light when you're staring at actual printed pages. From the perspective of a script reader, for example. And when you see your mistakes on script pages that aren't digital, you remember them better. It's a real learning curve to have this huge collection of pages and...
wait, this scene just isn't working.
I need to fix this. It forces you to look at your work from a different mindset entirely, and one which will grant you a new-found appreciation of your script. It's of my own opinion, anyway - whether you're worried about wasting paper or not - that it helps to read the physical copy - the copy that, symbolically, anyway, you hope will one day be in the hands of that special person who can make your dreams come true.
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