Go Into The Story Interview (Part 2): Liz Hannah My hour-long conversation with ‘The Post’ screenwriter Liz Hannah.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 5 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
Screenwriting 101: Jon Spaihts “Very often, even if you are just telling what seems like a good tale, theme emerges in the polishing if it didn’t emerge in the structural…
Daily Dialogue — January 9, 2018 “It was mid-afternoon, and it’s funny, I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along that block. I felt like a million. There…
Reader Question: How to convey a character’s emotional state in scene description? How much latitude does a screenwriter have to ‘editorialize’ in scene description?
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 1): Liz Hannah My hour-long conversation with ‘The Post’ screenwriter Liz Hannah.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 5 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
On Writing “Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom in storytelling is…
Daily Dialogue — January 8, 2018 “Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you…
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Get Out” The entire 6 part series delving into hit social thriller movie.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Week 1 Writing prompts #1–4. Practice writing dialogue. Win a free class with me.
Interview (Video): Robert Benton Conversation with the screenwriter of Bonnie & Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer.
Daily Dialogue — January 7, 2018 Lee Chandler: You know, I’ve seen a school of sharks tear a boat to pieces like it was made of cardboard because some kid threw a band-aid…
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Voice-Over Narration Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,523 consecutive days and counting.
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 323rd installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
N’neka, that would be a really good exercise: study each scene and see what one scene has, does, or… Re foreshadowing: Concur. In fact, I posted some thoughts on foreshadowing in the Dialogue post of this series. You might check that out.
Script Analysis: “Get Out” — Part 6: Takeaways Read the script for the hit social thriller movie and analyze it all this week.
Great stuff, Kc. That last line in the movie is better than the last line in the script: “I told you get the fuck out of that house, man.” Good line, but…
Haikal, three excellent examples of foreshadowing in dialogue. The foreshadowing by Peele really elevates the story including several motifs which run through the script like the deer, cotton, etc.
Interview (Written): Sean Baker A conversation with the filmmaker of the indie movie ‘The Florida Project’.
Script Analysis: “Get Out” — Part 5: Dialogue Read the script for the hit social thriller movie and analyze it all this week.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 4 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
