Go Into The Story Week In Review: December 9-December 15, 2013
Links to the week’s most notable posts:
All the things that are wrong with your screenplay in one handy infographic
Award season screenplay download (37 PDF scripts)
Classic 80s Movie: Better Off Dead
Classic 80s Movie: Blade Runner
Classic 80s Movie: Broadcast News
Classic 80s Movie: Full Metal Jacket
Classic 80s Movie: Ghostbusters
Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Awkward
Declare Your Independents: Volume 18
GITS Interview: Laura Colella, screenwriter-director of Breakfast with Curtis
Go On Your Own Quest: “Writing is an act of ego”
Go On Your Own Quest: “The story must be a conflict”
Go On Your Own Quest: “People forget years and remembers moments”
Go On Your Own Quest: “In the end something has changed”
Go On Your Own Quest: “Writing is a process of discovery”
Great Character: Willie T. Stokes (Bad Santa)
Great Scene: There Will Be Blood
Interview (Video): David O. Russell
Interview (Written): Joel and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Movies and Story Concept: Part 1
Movies You Made: “The Bicycle”
Pixar and the Craft of Storytelling
Reader Question: Could we talk more about stacking projects
Screenwriting 101: Scott Neustadter
Screenwriting News (December 9-December 15, 2013)
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 15(B): The Unraveling of the Plot
Writing and the Creative Life: Wherein I embrace my messy desk