Go Into The Story Week In Review: September 16-September 22, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Science

Declare Your Independents: Volume 10

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

Do you know how to break a story?

GITS Interview: Mynette Louie

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 10 — Prep: Do you find brainstorming beneficial and if so, why?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 10 — Prep: Do you interview your characters? If so, how?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 10 — Prep: What tips do you have for conducting story research?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 10 — Prep: When do you know you’ve done enough research on your story?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 10 — Prep: Do you use character archetypes in developing your story?

Great Character: Glinda (The Wizard of Oz)

Great Scene: Parenthood

Interview (Audio): Short Term 12

Interview (Video): Alfonso Cuarón

Interview (Written): Aaron Guzikowski

Interviews: Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious)

Making a movie is easy: A 3‐step process that worked for ‘Prisoners’

Maybe the sky isn’t falling…

On Writing: Justin Marks

Protagonist Studies: How do I know I’m the good guy?

Saturday Hot Links

Scene-Writing, Day 10: Write an action scene with no dialogue

Scene-Writing, Day 11: Saying good-bye at an airport

Scene-Writing, Day 12: Write an exposition scene…

Scene-Writing, Day 13: Write a scene with a reversal in it

Scene-Writing, Day 14: Write a scene with a one-sided telephone conversation

Screenwriting 101: Allan Durand

Screenwriting News (September 16-September 22, 2013)

Script To Screen: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9©: Episodic

Writing and the Creative Life: “Writing as Pilgrimage”