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

Break your story in prep

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”

On Writing: Willa Cather

Q&A: Dallas Buyers Club

Reader Question: What to do with a 70 page screenplay?

Reflections on the first Black List Screenwriters Lab

Saturday Hot Links

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

Subtext

THR: Screenwriters Roundtable

Writing and the Creative Life: Why creativity thrives in the dark