Go Into The Story Week In Review: September 30-October 6, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

13 Low Budget Movies That Made Millions

Audio Q&A: Blue Caprice

Audio Q&A: C.O.G.

Audio Q&A: Jayne Mansfield’s Car

Audio Q&A: Salinger

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Assassination

Declare Your Independents: Volume 12

Dialogue as “character communication”

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

“Gamechanger Films” Launches to Exclusively Finance Women-Directed Feature Films

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — Does the Protagonist go through a metamorphosis?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — What is your Protagonist’s flaw?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — Why does this story have to happen to your Protagonist at this time?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — Is your Protagonist actively pursuing a goal?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — Why will a script reader care about your Protagonist?

Great Character: Frank (Donnie Darko)

Great Scene: Rocky

Hidden Movie Gem: Adam and Paul

Hidden Movie Gem: Ball of Fire

Hidden Movie Gem: Diva

Hidden Movie Gem: Joyeux Noel

Hidden Movie Gem: The Missionary

Hidden Movie Gem: Round Midnight

Interview (Audio): Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)

Interview (Video): Brian Helgeland

Interview (Written): Peter Morgan

On Writing: Norman Mailer

Rewriting Your Script

Saturday Hot Links

Scene-Writing, Day 20: Write an opening scene

Screenwriting 101: Scott Derrickson

Screenwriting News (September 30-October 6, 2013)

Script To Screen: Five Easy Pieces

Spec Script Sale: “The Unsacred”

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 10: Simple and Complex Plots

Tarantino, Sorkin and Dialogue as Purpose

Writing and the Creative Life: There are no useless ideas