Go Into The Story Week In Review: December 1-December 6, 2014

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Conversations with Billy Wilder: Part 17

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Quitting

Declare Your Independents — Vol. 39

Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: No Country for Old Men

Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Pan’s Labyrinth

Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Panic Room

Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Shakespeare in Love

Great Character: Cousin Eddie (Christmas Vacation)

Great Scene: The Great Escape

Interview (Audio): Leigh Brackett

Interview (Video): John August

Interview (Video): Ava DuVernay

Interview (Video): Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith

Interview (Video): Graham Moore

Interview (Written): Nick Hornby

Interview (Written): Bob Saenz

On Writing: L. P. Hartley

Reader Question: How do you write characters without stereotyping them?

Reader Question: What to do if a movie is similar to my script?

Saturday Hot Links

Screenwriting 101: Larry Ferguson

Screenwriting News (December 1-December 6, 2014)

Script Analysis: Prisoners, Parts 1–5

Script To Screen: Clerks

Spec Script Sale: “Nottingham & Hood”

Update: Award season screenplay downloads (19 scripts including Belle, Birdman, Boyhood, Gone Girl, The Fault in Our Stars)

Video: The 25 Best Films of 2014

Writing and the Creative Life: Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling (Part 4)