Go Into The Story Week In Review: July 15-July 21, 2013

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Tantrum

Declaration of Independents: Volume 1

Dispatch From The Quest: Waka Brown

Dispatch From The Quest: Christian Fontenot

Dispatch From The Quest: Troy Klith

Dispatch From The Quest: Sandy Leviton & Miranda Sajdak

Dispatch From The Quest: Paul Wie

GITS Interview: Terrance Mulloy

GITS Interview: Jim Stansberry and Annika Tuneld

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 1 — Plot: How would you define plot

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 1 — Plot: About screenplay paradigms

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 1 — Plot: How do you work out your screenplay’s plot

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 1 — Plot: About using index cards for plotting

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 1 — Plot: “Screenplays are structure”

Great Character: Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)

Great Scene: Magnolia

Highlights of Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) and Elvis Mitchell (July 12, 2013)

Interview [Video]: Alfred Hitchcock

Interview [Written]: Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring)

Movie Story Type: Chase

Movie Story Type: Chick Flick

Movie Story Type: Post Apocalypse

Movie Story Type: Slasher

Movie Story Type: Ticking Clock

On Writing: Scott Adams

Reader Question: How likely is it newbie writers get screwed in the rewrite process?

Saturday Hot Links

Screenwriting 101: Carter Blanchard

Screenwriting News (July 15-July 21, 2013)

Script To Screen: Platoon

Spec Script Sale: “Children of the Gun”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 6(E): Thought Third

Summer Box Office: A Funny Thing Happened…

The Business Of Screenwriting: Do You Know Your Stuff?

What Exactly Is Go On Your Own Quest?