The Business of Screenwriting: Everything you wanted to know about specs [Part 6] Part 6: Rolling out a new writer’s spec script.
Daily Dialogue — March 15, 2018 “Good afternoon. My name is Edward Cole. I don’t know what most people say at these occasions because in all honesty, I’ve tried to avoid…
Barb, the ending is another way Three Billboards reminded me of the Coen brothers as they are big… As you suggest, perhaps Three Billboards is a prequel to the Mildred and Dixon story in Idaho!
“Prodigy”: From Black List Logline to Movie Premiere First-person account from co-writer / co-director of the movie Prodigy which got its start with a Go Into The Story contest.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 14 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script To Screen: “Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” Peter Sellers in one of three roles he plays in the movie: U.S. President.
Daily Dialogue — March 14, 2018 Ilana: Does anyone want to say anything? Didn’t any of you know him? Ben: Alright, I knew him. John Locke was a … a believer, he was a man…
Thanks, Ed, for your comments this week. Hope you join us for Mudbound which is our next script read and analysis which begins on Monday, March 26.
Writing and Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns Wherein I induct Donald Rumsfeld into the screenwriting ‘guru’ Hall of Fame.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” The entire 6 part series delving into the critically acclaimed indie film.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 13 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Screenwriting 101: Lori Evans Taylor “I worked for a manager named Jay Bernstein. He was one of the very first managers in the business. He represented Susan Summers, and…
Daily Dialogue — March 13, 2018 “This isn’t the Death of Nelson, you know. Where is it? There’s no mention of stage managers either. Come out of here. Are we going to get…
Thanks for this list. This is why I strongly advocate downloading scripts as soon as they become available during For Your Consideration award season.
How to Create a Compelling Protagonist Workshop your story’s central character in my 1-week online course.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 12 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
On Writing “When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists…
Daily Dialogue — March 12, 2018 “Are not the satisfactions of being a good man among our common men great enough to sustain us anymore?”
Roo, glad you’ve enjoyed the series. So much to learn from reading and analyzing movie scripts. Like the beetle moment. Yes, Save the Beetle!
I’ll go with this monologue where Mildred tells off the town priest: “Y’know what I was thinking about today? I was thinking ‘bout those street gangs they had down in Los Angeles, those Crips and those…
Tola, this is a great take and I think you’re right: the central theme of the story is, “Anger… The fact that the central theme of the story is uttered by Penelope, who otherwise comes off as an air-headed individual, is both funny and…
Lois, I am in 100% agreement with your take on the character archetypes in this movie, even down to… Great analysis!
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