Go Into The Story Week In Review: October 7–13, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

2013 Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship Finalists

32 Qualities of Better Film

9 Horror Films Under 9 Minutes

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Psychotic

Daily Routines of Creative Minds

Declare Your Independents: Volume 13

Diablo Cody: The 7 Things No One Tells You About Being a Top Screenwriter

Dispatch From The Quest: Waka Brown

Dispatch From The Quest: Christian Fontenot

Dispatch From The Quest: Troy Klith

Dispatch From The Quest: Sandy Leviton

Dispatch From The Quest: Miranda Sajdak

Dispatch From The Quest: Paul Wie

GITS Interview: Destin Daniel Cretton

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 13 — How many major plot points can you identify in your story?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 13 — Do you use the sequence approach?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 13 — Does your Act One set up most of your story’s primary characters?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 13 — Have you tracked all your subplots yet?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 13 — How does your Act Three provide a satisfying resolution to your story?

Great Character: Sam Wheat (Ghost)

Great Scene: Rushmore

Hidden Movie Gem: Appaloosa

Hidden Movie Gem: Beautiful Girls

Hidden Movie Gem: Bread and Chocolate

Hidden Movie Gem: Deep Red

Hidden Movie Gem: Spies Like Us

Hidden Movie Gem: Still Walking

Hidden Movie Gem: Weekend at Bernie’s

Interview (Video): Abi Morgan

Interview (Written): Billy Ray

On Writing: William Goldman

Saturday Hot Links

Screenwriting 101: Daniel Kunka

Screenwriting News (October 6–13, 2013)

Script To Screen: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Spec Script Sale: “Section 6”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 11: Reversal, Recognition and Suffering

Writing and the Creative Life: The Creative Personality