Recently, as a favor, I agreed to read a screenplay from a novice writer. There was a lot of good in it, but there was one glaring mistake that she made over and over, that completely torpedoed the script.
Ever time she did, it sucked all the energy off the page. And yet, it was easily fixed.
So what was this mistake?
She repeated information that the audience already knew.
Let me give you an example and how to fix it.
