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Saturday Hot Links Time for the 291st installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Trimming Tricks of the Trade, Part 4: Pseudo-Sluglines This is the fourth and final post about little things you can do to save lines (and pages) in your script.
Interview (Written): Gloria Katz Co-writer of American Graffiti and dialogue polish on Star Wars: Episode IV.
Daily Dialogue — May 27, 2017 “When did he pull his gun? Did he shoot first or did you shoot first? Don’t fuck with me. Do the right thing and tell me what happened.”
Video: “Storyboarding ‘Blood Simple.’” Take 5 minutes to watch and appreciate the genius of the Coen brothers.
Trimming Tricks of the Trade, Part 3: Cut Transitions Back today with another Trimming Trick of the Trade.
Writing and the Creative Life: How Does “Creativity” Translate Across Different Cultures? From a recent FastCoCreate.com article:
Daily Dialogue — May 26, 2017 Emma Horton: You both of you have beautiful eyes and your hair is too long. I mean, I don’t care how long it gets in the back, but keep…
Reader Question: Is it typical to hate your script when you’re writing it? But you love having written!
Trimming Tricks of the Trade, Part 2: Minimize Parentheticals Here is another way to help with your page count.
Attention: Rising College Seniors Check this out if you are interested in screenwriting and graduate in 2018.
The Business of Screenwriting (Part 1): They don’t think like you Hollywood studio executives can have a different way of seeing the world.
Daily Dialogue — May 25, 2017 DR. TAYLOR: Good morning. ALEX: Morning, Missus. DR. TAYLOR: How you feeling today? ALEX: Fine. Fine. DR. TAYLOR: Good. May I? I’m Doctor…
Spec Script Deal: “The Best of Adam Sharp” Vocab Films acquires drama spec script “The Best of Adam Sharp” adapted by Graeme Simsion from his own novel. From Deadline:
What I Learned Watching 125 Student Films Storytelling tips from my 8 day immersion in cinema… university style.
Trimming Tricks of the Trade, Part 1: Lose the orphans One way to cut pages while not messing with the integrity of the story.
Daily Dialogue — May 24, 2017 SHERYL: Richard, what are you thinking? RICHARD: We’re gonna take him with us. SHERYL: No, no. That is not happening. That is not…
