On Writing “If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed…
Daily Dialogue — March 5, 2018 Walter Stratford: Do you know what happens at proms? Bianca: Yes. We’ll dance, we’ll kiss, we’ll come home. It’s not quite the crisis…
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 4 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
30 Days of Screenplays: Vol. 1 Reading scripts. One of the single most important things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting. Here are 30 of them with analysis…
Interview (Video): Danny Boyle, Ed Burns, and Jason Reitman Conversations with filmmakers of the movies Slumdog Millionaire, The Brothers McMullen, and Up in the Air.
Daily Dialogue — March 4, 2018 Joel: Hi. Clementine: Hi. Didn’t figure you’d show your face around me again. I guess I thought you were… humiliated. You did run away…
Thanks for that, Joseph, good stuff re the story’s structure. You may enjoy this: LINK. It’s a multi-part series analyzing MC including a Tweetcast transcript involving myself and several other pro…
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 3 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
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Saturday Hot Links Time for the 331st installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Daily Dialogue — March 3, 2018 Young Carl "flies" his blue balloon ("The Spirit of Adventure" hand-written on it) as he runs along the sidewalk. He still wears helmet and…
Writing and the Creative Life: “In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail” When legendary football coach Vince Lombardi would speak in public, he rarely strayed far from two closely related subjects: success and…
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 2 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Spec Script Deal: “Naked is the Best Disguise” Studio 8 with a pre-emptive acquisition of science fiction thriller spec script “Naked is the Best Disguise” written by Graham Moore. Via…
Daily Dialogue — March 2, 2018 Ariadne: Why are they all looking at me? Cobb: Because my subconscious feels that someone else is creating this world. The more you change…
Reader Question: Is it true that only 2% of independent films get distribution? Background on the ever-changing indie film landscape… and is that HOPE on the horizon?
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 1 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
The Business of Screenwriting: Everything you wanted to know about specs [Part 4] Part 4: The Buyers — Studios and Financiers
Daily Dialogue — March 1, 2018 Officer: Come on, get everybody to clean this mess up now. Robbie: We’ve just arrived, sir. Can you tell us what we’re supposed to be…
Dustin, let me say this up front: You can always play it safe re format, follow conventional wisdom… Re original TV pilots: Your path of least resistance is do what’s expected re format. Again, you don’t HAVE to break from the norm with…
Reader Question: Do I HAVE to use INT/EXT — LOCATION — DAY/NIGHT in scene headings? Wherein we consider selling scripts, shooting scripts, and writing whatever the hell we want to tell our stories the best way possible.
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