Great! I’ll have a post going up tomorrow to round out this 4-part series which summarizes some of… Good luck with your #ZD30SCRIPT project!
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 357th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 1 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
2018 Scene-Writing Challenge: Week 4 Here are all of Week 4’s prompts for this year’s Scene-Writing Challenge.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Bank Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,761 consecutive days and counting.
Daily Dialogue — September 1, 2018 Ice Cream Vendor: Would you like to buy an ice cream? Diana: Thank you.
The Heroine’s Journey: Part 3 I’m reprising a 4-part series from 2012 on The Heroine’s Journey because it’s as relevant today as it was over 6 years ago.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Story Prep (Part 5) — Script Diary A series to help prepare writers for next month’s writing challenge.
Writing and the Creative Life: The Virtues of Spacing Out and Goofing Off Finally, science is good for something! Spacing out rules!
Daily Dialogue —August 31, 2018 “‘Ode to Ice Cream’ by Vada Sultenfuss. I like ice cream a whole lot/It tastes good on days that are hot/On a cone or in a dish/This will…
The Heroine’s Journey: Part 2 I’m reprising a 4-part series from 2012 on The Heroine’s Journey because it’s as relevant today as it was over 6 years ago.
Spec Script Deal: “The King” New Line Cinema acquires historical drama spec script “The King” written by Randall Wallace. From The Wrap:
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Story Prep (Part 4) — Think International A series to help prepare writers for next month’s writing challenge.
The Business of Screenwriting: If it ain’t got no soul, it ain’t gonna sell The time the legendary musician Taj Mahal laid words of wisdom on me.
Daily Dialogue — August 30, 2018 Ted Kramer: [while Billy brings ice cream to the table] You go right back and put that right back until you finish your dinner… I’m warning…
The Heroine’s Journey: Part 1 I’m reprising a 4-part series from 2012 on The Heroine’s Journey because it’s as relevant today as it was over 6 years ago.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Story Prep (Part 3) — Genre Bend A series to help prepare writers for next month’s writing challenge.
Script To Screen: “Halloween” Here is the last set of scenes from the 1978 Halloween, written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill.
Daily Dialogue — August 29, 2018 Jane Hudson: [referring to two ice cream cones she’s holding] They’re mine. They’re for my sister Blanche. She’s going to be a movie star.
How ‘Searching’ Uses Tech Devices as Narrative Devices The co-writers of the new ‘Cinema Digerati’ thriller Searching talk about their creative and writing process in crafting the story.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Story Prep (Part 2) — Gender Bend A series to help prepare writers for next month’s writing challenge.
