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The busy days flew by.

For a week, Wang Yan did nothing but read and change the script.

Two hours of in-depth reading each day were devoted to reading related works.

Story: Materials, Structure, Style, and Principles of Screenwriting by Mai Ji.

The Plot! Animating the Story through Characters, Suspense, and Conflict by Noah Luckman.

The Basics of Film Technology by Harper.

The Art of Screenwriting by Rajesh Egli.

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Four highly valuable screenwriting books were carefully selected. Three of them were written by American authors. It was evident that the US was more developed in their movie making ideas.

By the weekend, his new version of The Witch was mostly formed. The rest was to repeatedly revise the details and strengthen the main plot.

There were two areas he needed to strengthen.

First, he had to work on the suspense aspect. If there wasn't enough fighting ahead, he needed suspense to prop it up.