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Janine, if you haven’t written a screenplay before, I would recommend you write the novel. Good luck with the writing!
Congratulations, Minhal Baig! Her debut feature film Hala to world premiere in dramatic competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival!
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 4): Jeff Portnoy An extensive conversation with the Bellevue Productions literary manager.
How They Write A Script: David Lynch “If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature…
Writing and the Creative Life: Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling (Part 1) The Harvard Business Review had an interesting article with a series of links I thought would make for a good sets of posts in the Writing…
“Aristotle”: A poem This poem by Billy Collins conveys how three-act structure can take a story… anywhere.
“Movies don’t owe anybody a living” The original quote is about music, but it pertains to all entertainment.
How They Write A Script: Alvin Sargent “I think too many people are too organized; they’ve got it all worked out, instead of hearing their characters first. Get the goop out…
The Business of Screenwriting: Sometimes you’re just going to get it wrong In which I got it completely and utterly wrong about a movie project which went on to win six Oscars.
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 3): Jeff Portnoy An extensive conversation with the Bellvue Productions literary manager.
How they write a script — Billy Wilder “In a serious pictures, you don’t hear them being bored, but in a comedy you can hear them not laughing. You tried so hard and the guy did…
Script To Screen: “Lethal Weapon” The jumper scene from the 1987 movie Lethal Weapon, written by Shane Black.
Daily Dialogue — November 28, 2018 Dotty: And I take the sardines. No, I leave the sardines. No, I take the sardines. Lloyd: You leave the sardines and you hang up the phone…
Harry, every writer is different. All the best as you continue to create your stories which become part of your “fabric.”
Tweetstorm: Ed Solomon on Pitching “We are the world’s FOREMOST AUTHORITY on OUR OWN TAKE. On what WE love about something. And that is unassailable. Meaning: it can never…
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 2): Jeff Portnoy An extensive conversation with the Bellvue Productions literary manager.
How They Write A Script: Robert Towne “The single most important question, I think, that one must ask one’s self about a character is what are they really afraid of? What are…
Screenwriting 101: Tamara Jenkins “The stillness that is necessary to write, the act of silencing yourself, your cellphone, silencing everything to think, to bring words —…
