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Will you vow air vent chastity?
If you’re a screenwriter (or a novelist who writes stories where this sort of thing might be tempting), John August is asking you to sign “The Screenwriter’s Vow of Air Vent Chastity,” to whit:
I, John August, hereby swear that I shall never place a character inside an air duct, ventilation shaft, or any other euphemism for a building system designed to move air around.
He adds:
One day, I’d love to win an Oscar. An Emmy. A Tony Award. But if all I accomplished in my screenwriting life were reducing the number of times characters climbed through air vents, I’d consider my work successful.
My personal vow should probably be to avoid ending chapters with characters having been rendered unconscious, by any means whatsoever, including falling asleep.
(Via A Writer’s Life.)
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