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POSTED IN Best of the Web, Featured ON Mar 14, 2010
Best o/t Web 14 Mar 10
:: Black on action (via Scott Myers). :: Christopher Nolan on what to expect from Batman 3 :: How to logline a dual plot story? John August helps. ::...
POSTED IN Featured, Guest Contributions, Story & Structure ON Mar 12, 2010
How, Not If
I play games like I once used to read novels. There exists a pile and as I finish each game (taking a number of weeks and occasionally months each) I...
POSTED IN Book Reviews, Featured ON Mar 11, 2010
You Can Write a Movie
“You Can Write a Movie” by Pamela Wallace Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2000. 118 pages. ISBN 0-89879-974-0 Amazon Price: US...
POSTED IN Featured, Script Check, Script Perfection ON Mar 9, 2010
Introducing Names
When I re-watched the pilot episodes of LOST, it struck me how late the main characters’ names are introduced. And it works so well. By the...
POSTED IN Featured, MM on Monday, Script Perfection ON Mar 8, 2010
Trust the Reader
I want to say a word on trusting the reader. An inevitable sign of growth in a new writer – and we all go through this arc – is in the...
POSTED IN Featured, News ON Mar 8, 2010
What just happened??
I have seen The Hurt Locker and I enjoyed it. But I don’t get the hype. Is this a memorable movie? Is it memorable for the right...
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How, Not If
I play games like I once used to read novels. There exists a pile and as I finish each game (taking a number...
Script Perfection
Introducing Names
When I re-watched the pilot episodes of LOST, it struck me how late the main characters’ names are...
Pitching & Selling
Writings of a Reader
Ever wondered what goes on inside the minds of the fragrant few who get hired to read our screenplays? Those...
Best o/t Web 7 Mar 10
:: How to logline a script with multiple plots. :: Persistence in your scene-writing: imagining your story in its own...
Formatting Scripts To Sell
The point of every script is to be made into a film – obviously. Yet why do so some great stories never make it...
Writing Drama
“Writing Drama: A Comprehensive Guide for Playwrights and Scriptwriters” by Yves Lavandier. Translated from the...
Script Check: DAY / NIGHT
Many newbie screenwriters use times of day other than DAY or NIGHT in their scene headings. It looks...
Who is John Galt?
posted on: Mar 2, 2010 | author: Mystery Man
In the midst of my absence last month, I managed to squeeze in some time to read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. It was only 1000 pages of very fine...
Best o/t Web 28 Feb 10
posted on: Feb 28, 2010 | author: Solmaaz
:: Writer Laeta Kalogridis of Shutter Island’s advice: “Live within your means.” :: An endless curiosity: the processes of other...
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