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)
Hidden Movie Gem: The Frighteners
Hidden Movie Gem: The Last King of Scotland
Hidden Movie Gem: Me, You and Everyone We Know
Hidden Movie Gem: The Right Stuff
“How To Write An Awesome Movie, According To Some Of Hollywood’s Best Writers”
Interview (Video): Peter Straughan
Interview (Written): Kelly Masterson
Reader Question: Three act structure — good or bad?
Screenwriting 101: Will Simmons
Screenwriting News (October 28-November 3, 2013)
Spec Script Sale: “Don’t Hang Up”
Spec Script Sale: “Little Black Dress”
Spec Script Sale: “Patient Zero”
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 12: Prologue, Episode, Exode and Chorus