Go Into The Story Week In Review: July 29-August 4, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Announcing: The Quest Writing Workshop [Oct. 17–20, 2013, Santa Monica]

Audio Q&A: Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station)

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Talking to one’s self

Declare Your Independents: Volume 3

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

“11 Movies That Inspired ‘Weaponized’”

GITS Interview: Craig Mazin

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 3 — Character: Are you more comfortable writing characters or plot?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 3 — Character: What techniques do you use to develop your characters?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 3 — Character: Why is the Protagonist so important to a story?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 3 — Character: Why is a Nemesis so important to a story?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 3 — Character: How do fill out your story’s cast of characters?

Great Character: Madison (Splash)

Great Scene: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Interview [Video]: David Chase

Interview [Written]: Dalton Trumbo

Movie Story Type: Body Swap

Movie Story Type: Contained Thriller

Movie Story Type: Biopic

On Writing: Joyce Carol Oates

Reader Question: Is it possible to write while maintaining a full-time job?

Saturday Hot Links

Scene Description Spotlight: Avatar

Scene Description Spotlight: The Shawshank Redemption

Screenwriting 101: Paddy Chayefsky

Screenwriting News (July 29-August 4, 2013)

Script To Screen: The Abyss

Spec Script Sale: “Man of War”

Spec Script Sale: “The Feud”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 6(G): Spectacle Sixth

The Business Of Screenwriting: “Why we hate writers”

Update: The Quest Writing Workshop [Oct. 17–20, 2013, Santa Monica]

“You’ve helped more aspiring artists than you can possibly know”