Gerunds and Participles in Screenplays

[nq:1]I met a screenplay teacher who insisted "-ing" words (I'm referring to verbals), should not be in a screenplay. Only ... thing on my part, but I like the pp tense. Should I be worried about this? Thanks. W : )[/nq]
Stay away from the Participles and Jesus, too; Hollywood doesn't like religious pictures much.
As for gerunds, never mention that word around Richard Gere.

[nq:2]I met a screenplay teacher who insisted "-ing" words (I'm ... Should I be worried about this? Thanks. W : )[/nq]
[nq:1]Stay away from the Participles and Jesus, too; Hollywood doesn't like religious pictures much. As for gerunds, never mention that word around Richard Gere.[/nq]
ROFLMAO!!!
W : )

[nq:1]I met a screenplay teacher who insisted "-ing" words (I'm referring to verbals), should not be in a screenplay. Only ... thing on my part, but I like the pp tense. Should I be worried about this? Thanks. W : )[/nq]
I find that I am not distracted by literary devices or tense or mood shifts, but a lot of the people here are. And of course their opinions are worth more than mine.
I thi

[nq:2]Stay away from the Participles and Jesus, too; Hollywood doesn't like religious pictures much. As for gerunds, never mention that word around Richard Gere.[/nq]
[nq:1]ROFLMAO!!! W : )[/nq]
I better watch it, friend of mine has a Gere movie about to premiere. -)

[nq:2]Stay away from the Participles and Jesus, too; Hollywood doesn't like religious pictures much. As for gerunds, never mention that word around Richard Gere.[/nq]
[nq:1]ROFLMAO!!! W : )[/nq]
That's why Skip makes the Big Money...

[nq:1]I met a screenplay teacher who insisted "-ing" words (I'm referring to verbals), should not be in a screenplay. Only ... thing on my part, but I like the pp tense. Should I be worried about this? Thanks. W : )[/nq]
A guy asked me that just last week. He gave examples too: "John sleeps on the sofa. Greta enters and makes noise".
Seems to me that it's hard to avoid at least one -ing wo

[nq:1]I met a screenplay teacher who insisted "-ing" words (I'm referring to verbals), should not be in a screenplay. Only ... thing on my part, but I like the pp tense. Should I be worried about this? Thanks. W : )[/nq]
This stems from an entire generation who never actually studied English grammar.
The difference between "John sits." and "John is sitting" is not a stylistic one. It doesn

[nq:2]I met a screenplay teacher who insisted "-ing" words (I'm ... Should I be worried about this? Thanks. W : )[/nq]
[nq:1]A guy asked me that just last week. He gave examples too: "John sleeps on the sofa. Greta enters and ... van follows. Strating with "traffic moves at 35 mph" seems like a clumsy way of avoiding an -ing word. M[/nq]
See, by nature I would write something like:
"Tr

[nq:2]I met a screenplay teacher who insisted "-ing" words (I'm ... Should I be worried about this? Thanks. W : )[/nq]
[nq:1]A guy asked me that just last week. He gave examples too: "John sleeps on the sofa. Greta enters and ... is where John sleeps every night? An example from REPO MAN (no lover of slow or unnecessary words): EXT. [/nq]
This guy also had a thing against adverbs in script

[nq:1]I met a screenplay teacher who insisted "-ing" words (I'm referring to verbals), should not be in a screenplay. Only ... is a style thing on my part, but I like the pp tense. Should I be worried about this? Thanks.[/nq]
Neal's observations about grammar are valid, of course, but the point of writing in format is never that a particular format is somehow empirically 'correct,' it's just t