I wrote my first spec in less than 30 days.

Don’t hyperventilate yet—it wasn’t a feature I specced in less than a month, it was an hour-long TV drama. You should also know, in case you don’t already, that speccing for TV and speccing for film are two totally different terms. For television, to spec is to write an episode of a pre-existing show in order to prove to the world (or at least those who care to hire you) that you can assimilate your style to match that of another show.

It's all about cadence. When it comes to connecting the writing of a film with the emotion of a film, it's all about cadence.

Via Dictionary.com: Cadence--rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words: the cadence of language.

Who can forget the moment we heard the breathing of Darth Vader when he first stormed onto the screen in 1977; or the gleam off the clean-shaven head of Lex Luthor.  Strong villains are the key to an engaging story and when you sit down to write you script you'll need to avoid a common pitfall when crafting your villains.