Go Into The Story Week In Review: January 13-January 19, 2014

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

2014 Film and Television Writers Calendar

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Rescue

Final Update: The Official 2014 GITS Spec Script Sales Prognostication Contest!

GITS Interview: 2014 Nicholl Fellowship winner Barbara Stepansky

Great Character: John Bender (The Breakfast Club)

Great Scene: The Verdict

Interview (Video): Carl Gottleib (Jaws)

Interview (Written): Lindsay Devlin (Devil’s Due)

On Writing: Mark O’Connell

Reading 52 scripts in one year

Saturday Hot Links

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 1 — The Organic Nature of the Screenplay

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 2 — The Emergence of the Selling Script

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 3 — The Evolution of Screenplay Format and Style

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 4 — There are no screenwriting ‘rules’

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 5 — There are expectations

Script To Screen: Galaxy Quest

Screenwriting 101: Richard Curtis

Screenwriting News (January 13-January 19, 2014)

Spec Script Sale: “Mercy Road”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 18(B): Four Kinds of Tragedy

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Steve Coogan (“Philomena”)

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Ryan Coogler (“Fruitvale Station”)

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Writer-Director Spike Jonze (“Her”)

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Kelly Marcel (“Saving Mr. Banks”)

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Bob Nelson (“Nebraska”)

Why I keep blogging

Writing and the Creative Life: Structure and Freedom

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