Script Analysis: “Jackie” — Part 6: Takeaways Read the script for the Oscar nominated movie and analyze it all this week.
Character Introductions: Part 6 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
Daily Dialogue — February 6, 2017 Dink: What’s happened? Champ: Nothing, Dink. All of a sudden, I turned and faint dead away. The ground came up and socked me right square…
“‘Deadpool,’ ‘Arrival,’ ‘Zootopia’ Scribes and More Discuss Breaking Convention” Revealing comments from seven 2017 top award contending screenwriters.
Daily Dialogue — February 5, 2017 “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have…
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Conversations With Billy Wilder Excerpts from the excellent book “Conversations With Wilder,” a series of interviews Cameron Crowe conducted with Billy Wilder.
Here’s the full quote from the Deadline article: In the not-so-distant past, America was gripped by a political movement that promised to eliminate the “unfit” from our country. This is…
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 275th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Dialogue-Writing Exercises [2017] Here are prompts for the 3rd annual GITS Dialogue-Writing Challenge. Use these to improve your dialogue writing chops.
Interview (Written): Derek Kolstad A 2014 interview with the screenwriter of John Wick and John Wick 2.
Daily Dialogue — February 4, 2017 “Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just…
Character Introductions: Part 5 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
Spec Script Deal: “Unfit” Amazon Studios acquires historical drama spec script “Unfit” written by Melissa London Hilfers. From Deadline:
Script Analysis: “Jackie” — Part 5: Dialogue Read the script for the Oscar nominated movie and analyze it all this week.
Writing and the Creative Life: “The incurable disease of writing” Another in my series on the nexus between writing and creativity.
How good are you at handling exposition? In Hollywood, there is a saying I’ve heard more than once: “Exposition = Death.” Why? Because nothing can bore readers more than the…
Character Introductions: Part 4 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
Script Analysis: “Jackie” — Part 4: Themes Read the script for the Oscar nominated movie and analyze it all this week.
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