Winners! Tickets to see Lindsay Doran!

From this post last week:

She’s known as The Script Whisperer” and unlike so-called screenwriting gurus, Lindsay Doran has the street cred to back it up. To wit:

Lindsay Doran has worked in the movie business for more than 30 years as a studio executive and as a producer. She has served as the President and COO of United Artists Pictures and as the President of Sydney Pollack’s Mirage Productions.

Lindsay’s first film credit was as Executive in Charge of Production on the mock-documentary “This is Spinal Tap.” As a producer, her credits include “Dead Again,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Nanny McPhee,” and “Stranger Than Fiction.”

As an executive, Lindsay worked on dozens of films including “The Sure Thing,” “Stand By Me,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Planes Trains and Automobiles,” “The Naked Gun,” “Pet Sematary,” “Ghost,” “The Thomas Crown Affair,” and two James Bond films — “The World is Not Enough” and “Tomorrow Never Dies.”

She is the winner of numerous awards including the Golden Globe Best Picture award and the British Academy Award for Best Film, both for “Sense and Sensibility.” She was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Picture category for “Sense and Sensibility.”

The Black List in association with the WGAw Committee of Women Writers is sponsoring a one-time only event in which Lindsay Doran will make this presentation: “The Psychology of Story-Telling”.

Date: February 20
Time: 7:30–10:00
Location: The WGA Theater (Beverly Hills)

The event is sold out, however the Black List has reserved 7 tickets for Go Into The Story readers.

Here’s how we’re going to determine who gets the tickets:

Write words of encouragement to someone you don’t know about to embark on writing their first complete screenplay. No more than 100 words.

Post them in comments.

Deadline: Wednesday, February 12, Midnight PST.

There were quite a few responses. Franklin and I reviewed all the entries, and selected the following seven:

Ray A
N D
Paula Knudsen
Jon Raymond
Brian Scully
Robert Stockton
Thom

In addition to the free tickets to the Lindsay Doran event, I will be adding their contributions to this post: Words of inspiration to first-time writers…. I will post a revised version of that item tomorrow. Please spread it around as it offers some great inspiration to writers.

Thanks to everyone who participated! To the winners, someone from the Black List will be getting in touch with you soon re tickets to see Lindsay Doran. 

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