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)
Interview [Video]: Danny Strong
Interview [Written]: Derek Cianfrance (The Place Behind the Pines)
Reader Question: Is any exposition scene a “crock of sh*t”?
Reader Question: How to raise the stakes in the plot?
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