Go Into The Story Week In Review: November 4–10, 2013
Links to the week’s most notable posts:
30 Things About Screenwriting: (4) Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages.
30 Things About Screenwriting: (5) A spec script will not sell unless it has a strong story concept.
30 Things About Screenwriting: (6) Write what they’re buying or sell them your dream
30 Things About Screenwriting: (7) There are no screenwriting rules
30 Things About Screenwriting: (8) Immerse yourself in cinema
30 Things About Screenwriting: (9) When something happens… something ELSE happens
30 Things About Screenwriting: (10) Facing the odds
Award season screenplay download
Baby Boomers and the box office
Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Therapy
Declare Your Independents: Volume 14
Five questions with Cassian Elwes about the Black List fellowship
Go On Your Own Quest: “Tune in. Drop out.”
Go On Your Own Quest: “Snacks”
Go On Your Own Quest: “Don’t finish that scene”
Go On Your Own Quest: “Story Talismans”
Go On Your Own Quest: “Script diary”
Great Character: Linda Ash (Mighty Aphrodite)
Great Scene: The Silence of the Lambs
Hidden Movie Gem: The Long Kiss Goodnight
Interview (Video): John Ridley
Interview (Written): George R.R. Martin
Movies You Made: “Commencement”
Reader Question: What to do with a 70 page screenplay?
Reflections on the first Black List Screenwriters Lab
Screenwriting 101: Declan O’Dwyer
Screenwriting News (November 4–10, 2013)
Script To Screen: Hannah and Her Sisters
Spec Script Sale: “The Civilian”
Spec Script Sale: “Line of Duty”
“Stories tell us what we already know”
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 13(A): The Perfect Tragedy
Writing and the Creative Life: Why creativity thrives in the dark