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Read scripts of good movies that you haven't seen.
At worst, you'll have a heightened viewing experience. At best, you might learn something about telling a visual tale in text. How to describe action/images.
If you haven't seen it, I'd suggest reading "Do the Right Thing". Spike Lee writes as though he is selling each scene as he is describing it. I wanted to watch the movie the second I was done reading it. The Coen's and Woody Allen also come to mind as good suggestions. And maybe...as I am writing this it is occuring to me...it is critical that the writer have some production/direction control for this to be of benefit. Seems like the first scripts that came to mind fit that pattern.
Anyway...I have no expertise in this area, but you might find the -read then watch- experiment enlightening...or at least motivating.
Or you could just do what the big boys do and write it and have Jack or Carrie Fisher fix it for ya.
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