Go Into The Story Week In Review: September 9-September 15, 2013

Links to the week’s most notable posts:

Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Asking a favor

Declare Your Independents: Volume 9

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

Featurette: Short Term 12 writer-director Destin Cretton

GITS Interview: Daniel Turkewitz

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 9 — Prep: What are the key areas you focus on during the prep-writing phase?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 9 — Prep: How many weeks do you spend prepping your story before typing FADE IN?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 9 — Prep: Outline: Yes or no?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 9 — Prep: What techniques do you use to develop characters?

Go On Your Own Quest, Week 9 — Prep: How do you know when you are ready to type FADE IN?

Great Character: Tallahassee (Zombieland)

Great Scene: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Interview (Audio): Hannah Fidell (writer-director) and Will Brittain (actor), A Teacher

Interview (Video): Edgar Wright

Interview (Written): Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Movies You Made: “It Felt Good To Have This Pain”

On Writing: George Singleton

Saturday Hot Links

Scene-Writing, Day 5: Write a chase scene involving means of conveyance other than automobiles

Scene-Writing, Day 6: Write a scene that ends with a cliffhanger

Scene-Writing, Day 7: Write an ordinary scene in an extraordinary location

Scene-Writing, Day 8: Write a visual-to-visual transition between two scenes

Scene-Writing, Day 9: Take a favorite film and add a scene that adds to the narrative

Screenwriting 101: James DiLapo

Screenwriting News (September 9-September 15, 2013)

Script To Screen: Barton Fink

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9(B): Possibility, Probability and Necessity

Style = Voice

“The Origins and Formatting of Modern Screenplays” [Video]

The Quest 4-Day Writing Workshop — October 17–20, 2013, Santa Monica

Writing and the Creative Life: “Creativity-In-Action”