# I'm reading Syd Field's book "Screenwritting"

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**Created:** [March 14, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-reading-syd-fields-book-screenwritting/574693 "2011-03-14T19:40:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-reading-syd-fields-book-screenwritting/574693/1 "2011-03-14T19:40:53Z")

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Doing an exercise with his students they create a character on a nuclear contamination case. On page 83, he writes,“Can you imagine what would happen if an earthquake crumbled a nuclear power plant?” :eek: (this book was written in 1984 (revised in '05)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-reading-syd-fields-book-screenwritting/574693/2 "2011-03-14T21:43:09Z")

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This was a particularly hot topic in the early eighties, with much being made of the Diablo Canyon reactor in California being relatively close to a fault line.