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Matt Stone And Trey Parker Crash An NYU Writing Class

Fun little video where Matt and Trey talk about the whiteboards in the South Park writers rooms, and how they break the stories into beats:

Really simple rule…we can take the beats of your outline, and if the words “and then…” belong in between those beats? You’re fucked. You got something pretty boring. What should happen in between each beat is the word “therefore” or “but.” […]

I saw Matt Stone at my friend John Pierson’s master class a few years ago.

Fantastic advice!