Go Into The Story Week In Review: October 27-November 2, 2014

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Character Drives TV

“Conversations With Wilder”: Part 14

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Seduction

Declare Your Independents — Vol. 36

Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: 1 Page A Day

Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Don’t Finish That Scene

Great Character: Lorraine Warren (The Conjuring)

Great Scene: Almost Famous

Great Scene: Local Hero

Great Scene: Metropolitan

Great Scene: Scarface

Great Scene: The Matrix

How do TV writers write? They ‘break’ the story first.

Interview (Video): Rowan Joffee (Before I Go To Sleep)

Interview (Written): Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler)

Interview (Written): Stephen King

Joseph Campbell: “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life”

My Impressions of the 2014 Austin Film Festival

On Writing: Jim Tully

Reader Question: What to do if I’m good with plot, but weak with characters?

Saturday Hot Links

Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Challenge

Screenwriting 101: Mickey Fisher

Screenwriting News (October 27-November 2, 2014)

Script To Screen: Boogie Nights

Spec Script Sale: “Cold War”

Spec Script Sale: “Midnight”

Story Concepts That Sell

The 2014 Blood List

Video: George Lucas on Star Wars and “psychological motifs in mythology”

Video: Jill Soloway Keynote Address | 2014 Film Independent Forum

Writing and the Creative Life: Perspiration and Inspiration