Daily Dialogue — May 3, 2018 Julia Roberts: What took you so long? Bruce Willis: Traffic was a bitch.
Glad you enjoyed the series, Peter. Re “free style of writing”: Between 10 years of blogging and 16 years of teaching online, I am used to writing on the fly. And that has…
Reader Question: Do query letters still work? The odds are long, but query letters can work if you make it part of a holistic strategy of which the single most important part is this…
Go Into The Story Resource: A Screenwriter’s Guide to Aristotle’s “Poetics” You know you should read it. This 44 part series takes you through all of “Poetics” and offers analysis from a screenwriter’s perspective.
Interview (Part 3): Scott Beck and Bryan Woods The co-writers of A Quiet Place go deep into their background, creative process, and the evolution of their hit horror movie.
Script To Screen: “Fabulous Baker Boys” The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) is a wonderful romantic comedy, written and directed by Steve Kloves who later went on to write 7 out of the…
Thanks, Anne, for that background on how you found the site. Re trying to sell a script: Apart from established screenplay competitions like the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting or the Black List…
Interview (Part 2): Scott Beck and Bryan Woods The co-writers of A Quiet Place go deep into their background, creative process, and the evolution of their hit horror movie.
Go Into The Story Resource: Annual Spec Script Market Reports Detailed information and statistics on every verified spec script deal from 2008–2017, and analysis of the spec script market and business…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2018) This is the 9th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Screenwriting 101: Matt Manfredi “Write the thing that absolutely best expresses your voice. Don’t worry about getting an agent. Don’t worry about anything like that. Just…
Daily Dialogue — May 1, 2018 During the filming of Good Will Hunting 2, Will and Chucky face the smarmy Harvard student Clark — again.
Interview (Part 1): Scott Beck and Bryan Woods The co-writers of A Quiet Place go deep into their background, creative process, and the evolution of their hit horror movie.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 30 This is the 9th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
On Writing “Keep a diary, but don’t just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it…
Go Into The Story Movie Analysis: “In Bruges” The entire 6 part series delving into the critically acclaimed indie film.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 29 This is the 9th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Movie Within a Movie Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,635 consecutive days and counting.
Daily Dialogue — April 29, 2018 “My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I’m putting together a special team, and I need me eight soldiers. Eight Jewish-American soldiers. Now…
This is one of my favorite exchanges in the movie: The shootout between Ray and Harry: Ray: Harry, I’ve got an idea.
In Bruges is an excellent example of the mantra: “Screenplay = Simple Plot, Complex Characters”. While Harry is a pretty straight-ahead character, bound by his own ‘moral’ code of hit man ‘ethics’ — comparable to Chigurh in No Country…
