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Screenwriting 101: Liz Hannah

“The perspective of whose point of view you’re telling the story from, what character you want your audience to empathize with… At AFI we…

Daily Dialogue —April 30, 2019

Uncle Henry Skinner: [Bringing out two bottles of wine] I thought, as it’s your last night here, it only appropriate that we open something…

I saw the movie on an airplane returning from France and enjoyed it.

Alistair and Kitty Pong Eddie and Fiona Astrid and Michael Aramina and Colin (their wedding) Peik Lin and Rachel Astrid and Rachel Eleanor…

Script Analysis: “Crazy Rich Asians” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown

Read the script for the smash hit romantic comedy and analyze it this week.

5 Keys to the Screenwriting Craft

Think Concepts. Watch Movies. Read Scripts. Write Pages. Live Life.

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 29

This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

On Writing

“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head — and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can…

Daily Dialogue — April 29, 2019

“Ah! Ahhhhh!”

Screenwriting News (April 22-April 28, 2019)

The week’s writing deals and movie project news.

4,000!

Today marks the 4000th consecutive day I have blogged at Go Into The Story!

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 28

This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Character On The Screen [Part 1]

“Every character in the story of the scenarist should be established as an individual — a living, breathing, real person.”

“Creative Hints and Cheats for Writers”

Advice from screenwriter Dale Launer.

Daily Dialogue — April 28, 2019

Mona Lisa Vito: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can’t make those marks without positraction…

Wilder is absolutely my favorite director and The Apartment is my favorite movie.

Have you seen the series I did on ‘Conversations with Wilder’?

J E, your process sounds similar to mine and the one I teach in my story prep classes.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Saturday Hot Links

Time for the 388th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 27

This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

Script Analysis: “Stan & Ollie” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and thematic…

Daily Dialogue theme next week: Wine

Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,999 consecutive days and counting.

Interview (Video): Dan Gilroy

The Season 8 episode of the PBS series “On Story” with the writer-director of Nightcrawler and Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Daily Dialogue — April 27, 2019

Rudolf Abel: Standing there like that you reminded me of the man that used to come to our house when I was young. My father used to say…

Writing Mantra: “Writing is rewriting”

Perhaps no more true than in relation to screenwriting.

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 26

This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

Spec Script Deal: “I Heart Murder”

Sony Pictures Entertainment acquire thriller spec script “I Heart Murder” written by Thomas O’Donnell. From Deadline: