Go Into The Story Week In Review: December 2-December 8, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

2014 Writers Calendar

30 Things About Screenwriting

Award season screenplay download (34 PDF scripts)

Classic 80s Movie: Working Girl

Classic 80s Movie: Back to School

Classic 80s Movie: Night Shift

Classic 80s Movie: Real Genius

Classic 80s Movie: Say Anything

Classic 80s Movie: Scarface

Classic 80s Movie: Top Gun

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Parental advice

Declare Your Independents: Volume 17

GITS Interview: Kelly Marcel

Go On Your Own Quest: “Your story’s emotional life”

Go On Your Own Quest: “Zero in on themes”

Go On Your Own Quest: “Surfacing talismans”

Go On Your Own Quest: “Surfacing motifs”

Go On Your Own Quest: “Surfacing moments”

Great Character: Frank Cross (Scrooged)

Great Scene: Thelma & Louise

Interview (Video): David O. Russell

Interview (Written): Spike Jonze (Her)

Official Screenplay: Short Term 12

On Writing: Roald Dahl

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Story, Analyzed as a PDF eBook

Reader Question: How to set the mood or mindset of a scene

Saturday Hot Links

Screenwriting 101: Nick Palmer

Screenwriting News (December 2-December 8, 2013)

Script To Screen: Pi

Spec Script Sale: “Time Tweaker”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 15(A): Four Qualities of a Tragic Hero

Writing and the Creative Life: “The best way to have a good idea…”

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