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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  3928 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do You Read Book Introductions?

In terms of what not to do? Or in terms of subtle differences between why this is terrible and that is amazing even though the stories might be similar?





kleinbl00  ·  3927 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Look at it this way, when you watch a good movie, you're left with "wow, that was a good movie. It all worked." When you watch a bad movie, you have "that was a bad movie. It didn't work."

it's much easier to fix something that's broken than something that isn't. So when you see a bad movie, if you contemplate what the filmmakers could have done to make it a GOOD movie, you stand a fair-to-middlin' chance of improving your craft.