2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 24 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Daily Dialogue — September 24, 2018 Roger Rabbit: Benny, is that you? Benny: No, it’s Eleanor Roosevelt.
I think Innovator may be the most relevant to screenwriting precisely because of your description. Good luck with your innovating, Dana1
Screenwriting News (September 17 — September 23, 2018) The week’s writing deals and movie project news.
Great Scene: “Good Will Hunting” The bar scene. Will’s classic putdown. And a spin on the ‘meet cute’.
Spec Script Deal: “Happy Anniversary” Paramount Pictures acquires thriller spec script “Happy Anniversary” written by Holly Brix. From Deadline:
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 23 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Daily Dialogue — September 23, 2018 Sam: Why do you always use binoculars? Suzy: It helps me see things closer. Even if they’re not very far away. I pretend it’s my magic…
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 22 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 360th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Keys to the Screenwriting Craft: Think Concepts. A five-part series on things you should do to learn the craft.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Taxi Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,782 consecutive days and counting.
Interview (Video): Dan Fogelman A series of videos featuring the writer-director of the movie Life Itself.
Daily Dialogue — September 22, 2018 Bob: I think I know what you’ve been going through, man, ‘coz I’ve been through some heavy shit myself. If you feel alone, like nobody in…
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 21 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Writing and the Creative Life: Three Types of Creators Perfecter. Innovator. Synthesizer. Which type of creative are you?
“Screenplays are stories, not formulas” William Goldman has famously written, “Screenplays are structure.” That is true in a tangible sense because at some point, a script becomes…
Keys to the Craft: Write Pages The only path toward productivity as a writer is to stare down the blank page.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 20 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
The Business of Screenwriting: Never forget who the star is We’re in the office of a studio executive. In the room are the exec, the project’s director, us, and a speaker-phone on a coffee table. The…
Daily Dialogue — September 20, 2018 “You filthy, god damn, pock-marked, fascist assholes! Take your hands off my lobby boy!”
