I discovered this extraordinary memo from David Mamet to the writers of THE UNIT, a series he created a few semesters back for CBS. (The origination of the memo seems to have come from Ink Canada. I discovered it through Movie Line.)It is a simply brilliant essay on drama and writing in general. In fact, it's pretty much all you need to know about writing drama. Excuse that it's
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AM on January 11, 2014