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134 HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS
first thing he thought of for which a man could be arrested, and took it for granted that a judge would "slap on" the long sentence.
Amateurs have to learn to overcome this habit, and sort of "think from the other end," in order to make their scripts logical at all points. When you have a certain end to reach in order to make your plot work out the way you wish, think over its various possibilities, and apply each of them to real life. Ask yourself : "If I were this man, or this woman, would I act in this manner?" Had the amateur of the "twenty-years-for-a-bottle-of-milk" episode placed himself in the position of the judge who tried the case, he probably would have seen how impossible it was, and would have supplied a crime with a little more lawlessness attached to it in order to have the character draw the required sentence.
Learn to "think around" your subject, and thus avoid impossibilities.
WAITING.
About once a week some one comes to us, or writes in, that such and such a company has held a script for three or four weeks, and wants to know whether they are copying the plot, to be used without paying for it.
We don't say much, but we tab writers having such complaints to make as being of the class who will have trouble all their lives. No reputable film company will be so small as to steal a play, so why fuss around on that score? If writers wish to take the chance of submitting to unreliable concerns, who are nothing more than "get