Go Into The Story Week In Review: January 20-January 26, 2014

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Directions

Great Character: The Geek (Sixteen Candles)

Great Scene: Wall Street

Interview (Video): Damon Lindelof

Interview (Written): Jennifer Lee (Frozen)

Matthew Hickman: Reflections of an Independent Screenwriting Fellowship Winner [cont’d]

Movies You Made: “Red’s at the Crossing”

On Writing: Napoleon Hill

Oscar Nominated Screenplays

Quest Writing Workshop: Santa Monica, March 13–16, 2014

Reader Question: What is the history of script reading/coverage?

Saturday Hot Links

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 6 — We See / We Hear

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 7 — Unfilmables

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 8 — Action Paragraphs — 3 Lines Max

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 9 — CUT TO (Transitions)

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’: Part 10 — Parentheticals

Script To Screen: Argo

Screenwriting 101: Paul Feig

Screenwriting News (January 20-January 26, 2014)

Spec Script Sale: “Vice”

Spec Script Sale: “Red Ice”

Spec Script Sale: “Security”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 18©: Multiplicity of Plots

The famous Pixar lunch in 1994

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Danny Strong (“Lee Daniels’ The Butler”)

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“The Spectacular Now”)

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn Davis”)

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Nicole Holofcenter (“Enough Said”)

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: John Ridley (“12 Years a Slave”)

“Use This Map To Find Your State’s Most Popular Movie”

Writing and the Creative Life: “In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail”

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