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Go Into The Story Resource: Daily Dialogue The Daily Dialogue series not only as great information to aid in our dialogue-writing practice, each daily post reminds us of some great…
Interview (Part 5): 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.
Writing and the Creative Life: Routine or Ritual? I am fascinated by creativity, in particular how creativity manifests itself in the wide variety of people I meet or learn about. That has…
Daily Dialogue — May 4, 2018 “He took me to a private sitting room, ordered food. But… he had changed. He was full of smiles and caresses, but… I knew at once that he…
Reader Question: How insane is it for a 46 year-old to try to start a Hollywood writing career? It’s crazy, but then it’s crazy for ANYONE to expect to break into Hollywood.
Go Into The Story Resource: Guides to Classic Movies Selected by GITS readers, a compilation of notable movies from the 1930s through 1990s, plus some classic international films.
Interview (Part 4): 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.
The Business of Screenwriting: Everything you wanted to know about specs Part 13: Targeting Specific Buyers
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.
