Go Into The Story Week In Review: September 22-September 28, 2014

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

“12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School”

An Argument Against Screenplay Formulas (5 part series)

“BLACK LIST LIVE!” returns with “The Seekers of Perpetual Love”

Classic 70s Movie: Apocalypse Now

Classic 70s Movie: Carrie

Classic 70s Movie: Jaws

Classic 70s Movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Classic 70s Movie: Shampoo

Classic 70s Movie: Star Wars

Classic 70s Movie: Taxi Driver

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Politics

Declare Your Independents: Volume 31

Great Character: Donnie Darko (Donnie Darko)

Interview (Audio): James Schamus

Interview (Audio): Emma Thompson

Interview (Video): Richard Wenk

Interview (Written): Jill Soloway

Is this the model for a “next-generation film studio”?

Monologue as ‘sales pitch’

October is Great Scenes Month

On Writing: Rumer Godden

Quest Writing Workshop: Santa Monica, December 10–13, 2014

Reader Question: Should writers be concerned about projects that have similar concepts to theirs?

Reader Question: What does a “bidding war” mean and how does that happen?

Saturday Hot Links

Screenwriting 101: Rajiv Joseph

Screenwriting News (September 22-September 28, 2014)

Script To Screen: Batman

Six Book Trip To 2nd Annual Black List Screenwriters Lab

Spec Script Sale: “In the Land of Imagined Things”

Spec Script Sale: “The Eden Project”

The Business of Screenwriting: The crazed life of a studio executive

Twitter Rant: Justin Marks on script page count

Update: Matthew Hickman, Black List/Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship winner

Writing and the Creative Life: Writing as Pilgrimage