Go Into The Story Week In Review: September 2-September 9, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Audio Q&A: Liz W. Garcia (“The Lifeguard”)

Audio Q&A: Zachary Heinzerling (“Cutie and the Boxer”)

Audio Q&A: Lynn Shelton (“Touchy Feely”)

Audio Q&A: Rawson Marshall Thurber, Nick Offerman (“We’re the Millers”)

Audio Q&A: Scott Walker (“The Frozen Ground”)

Character = Function

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Reunion

Declare Your Independents: Volume 8

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

Documentary: “The Human Comedy” (Billy Wilder)

GITS Meet-Up?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 8 — Time: What implications derive from a screenplay being written in the present tense?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 8 — Time: Do you write in “the moment”? How would you describe that experience?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 8 — Time: Flashbacks: Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 8 — Time: What is your favorite nonlinear movie? Why?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 8 — Time: How important are setups and payoffs?

Great Character: Lester Bangs (Almost Famous)

Great Scene: North by Northwest

Interview [Video]: Robert Towne

Interview [Written]: Ray Bradbury

“Less explanation — get on with it!”

Mysterious Hollywood Roundup

On Writing: Stephen Leigh

Saturday Hot Links

Scene-Writing, Day 1: Write a scene in which you introduce a character in a memorable way

Scene-Writing, Day 2: Write a scene featuring two characters sitting on the edge of a bridge

Scene-Writing, Day 3: Write an establishing scene

Scene-Writing, Day 4: Write a scene that begins with this line of scene description: “Smoke stings his/her eyes”

Screenwriting 101: Liz W. Garcia

Screenwriting News (September 2-September 8, 2013)

Script To Screen: Badlands

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9(A): Poet and Historian

Up: High Concept or Not?

Writing and the Creative Life: Routine or Ritual?

Write. Your. Story.

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