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Saturday Hot Links

Time for the 306th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…

Interview (Video): Angela Kang (The Walking Dead) and Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy)

From a 2015 Austin Film Festival panel.

Interview (Written): James Raue

His movie “Psychoanalysis” was discovered as a script on blcklst.com.

Daily Dialogue — September 2, 2017

“I know, we’re all gonna die. Everybody knows that. But I’m going to die today. Funny that… you know, to know. But the thing is, is that…

Zero Draft Thirty 2017 September Challenge: Day 1

One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.

Writing as Jazz, Jazz as Writing: Part 5

Words of writing wisdom gleaned from some jazz greats.

Have you got a screenwriting question?

If you can’t find the answer here, feel free to send it along.

Scene-Writing Exercises [2017]

Here are 22 scene-writing prompts.

Writing and the Creative Life: Mind Wandering

“What no [spouse] of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”

Daily Dialogue — September 1, 2017

“You think I’m fucking stupid? I know it was you.”

Zero Draft Thirty 2017 September Challenge: Story Prep (Part 9) —Get Your Head On Straight

A series to help prepare writers for next month’s writing challenge.

Writing as Jazz, Jazz as Writing: Part 4

Words of writing wisdom gleaned from some jazz greats.

Spec Script Deal: “Jack & Dick”

Hyde Park Entertainment acquires historical drama spec script “Jack & Dick” written by Lee Batchler and Janet Scott Batchler. From…

“For a writer, every day is character day”

In fact, September 13 is actually Character Day!

The Business of Screenwriting: Movies are a director’s medium

“But that’s the whole point of the goddammed movie!

Daily Dialogue — August 31, 2017

Annie: Hi, I can’t get off the couch. I got fired from my job, I got kicked out of my apartment, I can’t pay any of my bills, my car is a…

Zero Draft Thirty 2017 September Challenge: Story Prep (Part 8) — Script Diary

A series to help prepare writers for next month’s writing challenge.

Writing as Jazz, Jazz as Writing: Part 3

Words of writing wisdom gleaned from some jazz greats.

Spec Script Deal: Untitled Josh L. Gordon Project

Warner Bros. acquires untitled science fiction spec script written by Josh L. Gordon. From THR:

2017 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 22

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

Script To Screen: “Young Frankenstein”

A classic scene from the 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein.

Daily Dialogue — August 30, 2017

Aragorn: Let the Lord of the Black Land come forth! Let justice be done upon him! The Mouth of Sauron: My master, Sauron the Great, bids…

The Power of Death in Stories

There is no more emotionally compelling narrative dynamic than death.

Writing as Jazz, Jazz as Writing: Part 2

Words of writing wisdom gleaned from some jazz greats.