Go Into The Story Week In Review: October 28-November 3, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

30 Things About Screenwriting: (1) There’s no right way to write

30 Things About Screenwriting: (2) Screenplays are stories, not formulas

30 Things About Screenwriting: (3) Learn the craft

A different approach to “theme”

Austin Film Festival: Unreliable Narrator Panel with John August and Jim Taylor

Austin Film Festival: Deconstructing “Dog Day Afternoon” with Peter Craig and Robin Swicord

Austin Film Festival: Deconstructing “Tootsie” with Leslie Dixon and John Hamburg

Award season screenplay download

“Cassian Elwes Endows New Indie Writer Fellowship Via The Black List”

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Dramatic Reveal

Go On Your Own Quest: “Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it”

Go On Your Own Quest: “Just write the next word”

Go On Your Own Quest: “The first draft is nothing more than a starting point”

Go On Your Own Quest: “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts”

Great Character: Mary Wilke (Manhattan)

Great Scene: Sideways

Hidden Movie Gem: The Frighteners

Hidden Movie Gem: Her Alibi

Hidden Movie Gem: Ice Pirates

Hidden Movie Gem: The Last King of Scotland

Hidden Movie Gem: Me, You and Everyone We Know

Hidden Movie Gem: The Right Stuff

Hidden Movie Gem: Stalag 17

Horror Movie Clichés

“How To Write An Awesome Movie, According To Some Of Hollywood’s Best Writers”

Interview (Video): Peter Straughan

Interview (Written): Kelly Masterson

On Writing: Del Close

Reader Question: Three act structure — good or bad?

Saturday Hot Links

Screenwriting 101: Will Simmons

Screenwriting News (October 28-November 3, 2013)

Script To Screen: Toy Story

Spec Script Sale: “Don’t Hang Up”

Spec Script Sale: “Fetch”

Spec Script Sale: “Little Black Dress”

Spec Script Sale: “Patient Zero”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 12: Prologue, Episode, Exode and Chorus

The Blood List 2013

The History and Psychology of Horror Films

Writing and the Creative Life: One key to creativity… naps?