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Studies in Flashbacks (5 Part Series) Casablanca, The Social Network, (500) Days of Summer, Once Upon a Time in the West, Ordinary People
Daily Dialogue — November 2, 2019 David: I’ve just had a nightmare. Nurse Alex: Not to worry. I’ve just the thing.
2019 Award Season Screenplay Downloads It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Studies in Flashback: “Ordinary People” Part 5 of a five-part series on movies where flashbacks work.
Writing and the Creative Life: “Why You Should Write Three Pages of Garbage Every Morning” “Freewriting forces you to keep moving forward, keep creating, without a thought given to quality.”
Tweetstorm: Bryan Edward Hill on Keys to Writing Scene Description Advice on writing efficient, entertaining scene description in genre scripts from author, screenwriter, musician, comic book writer, and…
Studies in Flashback: “Once Upon a Time in the West” Part 4 of a five-part series on movies where flashbacks work.
The Business of Screenwriting: Everything you wanted to know about specs [Part 5] “We like to manage what our writers are writing, but we’re only as good as our writers. We complement their process by helping them craft…
Daily Dialogue — October 31, 2019 “This is not a dream… not a dream. We are using your brain’s electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious…
Studies in Flashbacks: “(500) Days of Summer” Part 3 of a five-part series on movies where flashbacks work.
Spec Script Deal: “Widow: The Way Of The Raven” Perfect Village Entertainment acquires Western spec script “Widow: The Way Of The Raven” written by Joanne Reay. Via Deadline:
Not sure what to attribute the rise of science fiction to re spec script market and feature films… One thing I can predict: Once the WGA-ATA dispute is resolved and the four big agencies are back in official business with writers, we can…
How to Break Into the Film Industry Without Any Connections The screenwriters of the smash hit movie A Quiet Place share the ins and outs of their journey to Hollywood.
Studies in Flashbacks: “The Social Network” Part 2 of a five-part series on movies where flashbacks work.
Screenwriting 101: Lloyd Harvey “Give yourself permission to enjoy the small wins along the way. We make it a practice within our creating, our writing, and our making…
‘Star Wars’ and the Question of Identity At its psychological foundation of the Star Wars universe lies an existential challenge facing key characters posed by the question: Who…
On Writing “There is no such thing as somebody sitting down and saying, “Now, all right, I’m going to make a new picture.” Not at all. You have ideas…
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