Hollywood's Script Guru's - Are They Even Qualified?? (Screenwriting

Paul Guyot recently called out Hollywood’s best-selling screenwriting gurus (Syd Field, Michael Hauge, John Truby, Linda Seger) for having “little real experience.” But does that disqualify them as experts? They’ve sold millions of books—so what actually makes someone a screenwriting authority? Let’s debate credentials vs. impact, craft vs. commerce, and whether expertise can come from teaching more than doing.
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