Go Into The Story Week In Review: July 22-July 28, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Announcement: Warner Bros.-Black List Diversity Initiative Partnership

Audio Q&A: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash (The Way Way Back)

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Eulogy

Declare Your Independents: Volume 2

Dispatch From The Quest: Waka Brown

Dispatch From The Quest: Christian Fontenot

Dispatch From The Quest: Troy Klith

Dispatch From The Quest: Sandy Leviton

Dispatch From The Quest: Miranda Sajdak

Dispatch From The Quest: Paul Wie

GITS Interview: Jay Eden

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 2 — Concept: If there is one story concept of a movie that you could have created, which one would it be?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 2 — Concept: How do you generate story concepts?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 2 — Concept: How do you determine which story concept to write as a spec script?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 2 — Concept: How do you define “high concept”?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 2 — Concept: What are the essential parts of a logline?

Great Character: Hanna (Hanna)

Great Scene: Manhunter

Happy Birthday, Carl Jung!

Interview [Video]: Woody Allen

Interview [Written]: Maggie Carey (The To Do List)

Movie Story Type: Found Footage

Movie Story Type: Frustration Comedy

Movie Story Type: Martial Arts

Movie Story Type: Mockumentary

Movie Story Type: Revenge

On Writing: William Wallace Cook

Reader Question: Shouldn’t a writer figure out the craft on their own?

Saturday Hot Links

Screenwriting 101: David Simon

Screenwriting News (July 22-July 28, 2013)

Screenwriting Tip: Muck Up Your Plot

Script To Screen: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 6(F): Diction Fourth, Song Fifth

The Business Of Screenwriting: I Can Do That

The Terror of Writing… The Wonder of Writing