Go Into The Story Week In Review: August 12-August 18, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Overcome With Emotion

Declare Your Independents: Volume 5

Dispatch From The Quest: Waka Brown

Dispatch From The Quest: Christian Fontenot

Dispatch From The Quest: Troy Klith

Dispatch From The Quest: Sandy Leviton

Dispatch From The Quest: Miranda Sajdak

Dispatch From The Quest: Paul Wie

GITS Interview: Jeffrey Lieber

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 5 — Dialogue: Do you ‘hear’ your characters ‘talking’ to you?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 5 — Dialogue: Does dialogue come easily or hard to you?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 5 — Dialogue: What tips do you have for writing subtext?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 5 — Dialogue: How is dialogue different than conversation?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 5 — Dialogue: What is the best way to handle exposition in dialogue?

Great Character: Judy Benjamin (Private Benjamin)

Great Scene: Network

Interview [Video]: Danny Strong

Interview [Written]: Derek Cianfrance (The Place Behind the Pines)

On Writing: James Frey

Reader Question: Is any exposition scene a “crock of sh*t”?

Reader Question: How to raise the stakes in the plot?

Saturday Hot Links

Scene Description Spotlight: Alien

Scene Description Spotlight: Chinatown

Scene Description Spotlight: Gattaca

Scene Description Spotlight: Saving Private Ryan

Scene Description Spotlight: Wall-E

Screenwriting 101: Ava DuVernay

Screenwriting News (August 5-August 18, 2013)

Script To Screen: The Usual Suspects

Spec Script Sale: “Soldiers of the Sun”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 7(B): Beauty, Magnitude and Order

The Business Of Screenwriting: Three Scripts

The Protagonist’s Arc: Conscious Goal and Unconscious Goal