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POSTED IN Featured, Script Check, Script Perfection ON Mar 9, 2010
Introducing Names
When I re-watched the pilot episodes of LOST, it struck me how late the main characters’ names are introduced. And it works so well. By the...
POSTED IN Featured, MM on Monday, Script Perfection ON Mar 8, 2010
Trust the Reader
I want to say a word on trusting the reader. An inevitable sign of growth in a new writer – and we all go through this arc – is in the...
POSTED IN Featured, News ON Mar 8, 2010
What just happened??
I have seen The Hurt Locker and I enjoyed it. But I don’t get the hype. Is this a memorable movie? Is it memorable for the right...
POSTED IN Best of the Web, Featured ON Mar 7, 2010
Best o/t Web 7 Mar 10
:: How to logline a script with multiple plots. :: Persistence in your scene-writing: imagining your story in its own world. :: What screenwriter...
POSTED IN Featured, Guest Contributions, Script Perfection ON Mar 4, 2010
Formatting Scripts To Sell
The point of every script is to be made into a film – obviously. Yet why do so some great stories never make it to the screen? Christopher...
POSTED IN Book Reviews, Featured ON Mar 4, 2010
Writing Drama
“Writing Drama: A Comprehensive Guide for Playwrights and Scriptwriters” by Yves Lavandier. Translated from the French by Bernard Besserglik. ...
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Who is John Galt?
In the midst of my absence last month, I managed to squeeze in some time to read Ayn Rand’s Atlas...
Script Perfection
Introducing Names
When I re-watched the pilot episodes of LOST, it struck me how late the main characters’ names are...
Pitching & Selling
Writings of a Reader
Ever wondered what goes on inside the minds of the fragrant few who get hired to read our screenplays? Those...
Script Check: DAY / NIGHT
Many newbie screenwriters use times of day other than DAY or NIGHT in their scene headings. It looks...
Best o/t Web 28 Feb 10
:: Writer Laeta Kalogridis of Shutter Island’s advice: “Live within your means.” :: An endless...
The Natural Three Acts
If Shakespeare were writing screenplays now, he’d be laughed out of Hollywood. Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet were...
Reviewed: Personality
“Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are” by Daniel Nettle. Oxford University Press, Oxford 298...
On Adaptations
posted on: Feb 22, 2010 | author: Mystery Man
Let me get on my Project Gutenberg soapbox. One of the most under-appreciated opportunities for aspiring screenwriters is Project Gutenberg. As...
Best o/t Web 21 Feb 10
posted on: Feb 21, 2010 | author: Solmaaz
:: Independent film, the new horizons. :: Why companies toss your spec script. :: Using dialect in your script, and how to go about it. ::...
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