A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 23 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Daily Dialogue — April 23, 2017 GREGORY: You remember our first days. You remember Italy? PAULA: There have been times when I thought I only dreamed those days. GREGORY…
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Reader Question: Do all characters get their own ‘hero’s journey’? Or is the Protagonist’s journey the only one that matters?
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 286th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 22 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Daily Dialogue — April 22, 2017 OZ: You know what I think we need? A little music. THEODORA: Is that magic? OZ: In a way. It’s a music box. You’ve never seen one? This…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 21 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Writing and the Creative Life: Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling (Part 2) Freytag’s pyramid, Cortisol, Dopamine, and you!
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 20 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
The Business of Screenwriting: The Birth, Life and Death of a Movie (Part 2) When we last left this intrepid screenwriter, I was stuck in 1997, left holding a phone, speechless after learning that a supposed done…
Daily Dialogue — April 20, 2017 Fletcher: I don’t know if you heard, I’m not at Schaffer anymore. Andrew: Yeah, I did hear that. Did you quit? Fletcher: Not exactly. Some…
Spec Script Deal: “Princesses” Pascal Productions and Greymatter Productions acquires spec script “Princesses” written by Nir Paniry. From Deadline:
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 19 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Daily Dialogue — April 19, 2017 “A job’s come up and I thought about you. Well, not a job really, more of an interesting errand.”
Narrative Imperative: The Protagonist’s Destiny Reflections by Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell invert the writing process.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 18 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Screenwriting 101: Stephen J. Cannell “I just loved it. When I was writing stuff that I liked, it just felt so good. I would read it over and think, ‘God this is really good — I…
