Go Into The Story Week In Review: July 28-August 3, 2014

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Cassian Elwes independent screenwriting fellowship enters 2nd year with Black List

Character = Function

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Grief

Declare Your Independents: Volume 23

Featurette: “All the President’s Men”

Fight Club Q&A @ Comic-Con 2014 by Jeff Goldsmith

Free Screenwriting Resource: Guide to Aristotle’s “Poetics”

Free Screenwriting Resource: Movie Story Types

GITS Interview: “Chicks Who Script” (Emily Black, Maggie F. Levin, Lauren Schacher)

GITS Interview: Jason Mark Hellerman

Great Character: Lucy (Lucy)

Interview (Audio): Writers of “The New Girl”

Interview (Video): Paul Haggis

Interview (Written): Thunder Levin

Interview (Written): Jon Spaihts

On Writing: Dominick Dunne

Reader Question: For great films, should I watch them or read script first?

Reader Question: Is it possible to have a Protagonist who doesn’t have a backstory?

Saturday Hot Links

Scene-Writing Challenge, Day 20: A scene in which a character uses a computer

Screenwriting 101: Guillermo Arriaga

Screenwriting Lessons: “The King’s Speech” — Part 1: Sympathetic Protagonist

Screenwriting Lessons: “The King’s Speech” — Part 2: Metamorphosis

Screenwriting Lessons: “The King’s Speech” — Part 3: Talismans

Screenwriting Lessons: “The King’s Speech” — Part 4: Shadow

Screenwriting Lessons: “The King’s Speech” — Part 5: Moments

Screenwriting News (July 28-August 3, 2014)

Script To Screen: The Way Way Back

Showrunner Rules from Jeffrey Lieber: Numbers 221–230

Spec Script Sale: “Berliner”

Writing and the Creative Life: “Get a mentor”

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