Best of the Web 3 Mar

Story & Structure :: How To Write The Perfect Ending :: Everything You Need to Know about Specs Part 1 :: Writing Dialogue Banter That Works :: Great scene: Dr. Strange Love :: The Difficulty of Short Film Writing :: Creating Character and Characterization :: Emotional Elements of Plot: Dramatic Action :: V.O. Narration: The … Read more

Best of the Web 24 Feb

Story & Structure :: The Art Of Higher Stakes :: Film Endings and ‘Rocky’ :: Death and the Modern Western in ‘True Grit’ and ‘Django’ :: Russel’s Rules For Redrafting :: 10 Screenwriting Lessons from Inglorious Basterds :: 3 Storytelling Tips From ‘Breaking Bad’ :: 9 Rules For Being Funny From David Steinberg :: The … Read more

Best of the Web 17 Feb

Story & Structure :: How Screenwriters Find Their Voice :: Scene Questionnaire to Help With Your Re-write or Pre-write :: TV Writers Podcast Ep 70 – The Emotional Thesaurus :: Scriptnotes Podcast Ep 75 – Villians :: Screenwriting the Dan O’Bannon Way :: Three Ways Alt-Script Writing Can Improve Your Spec Scripts Script Perfection :: … Read more

Best of the Web 10 Feb

Story & Structure :: Inherently Dramatic Characters :: Empathetic Heroes and ‘Cinderella Man’ :: Is 80’s Style Action Dead? :: Great Scene: Die Hard :: Villains: John August podcast :: Punching the Puppet – Writing Specs :: Review: This Is 40 Script Perfection :: Does Your Dialogue Make This Mistake? :: 115 Words for Walk … Read more

Best of the Web 3 Feb

Story & Structure :: Story Themes and ‘Road To Perdition’ :: Some Stories Don’t Need a Nemesis Character :: Go Into The Story: Groundhog Day :: Screenplay Review: The $1 Billion Movie That Never Was, ‘Halo’ :: Rom Com Transcript with Guest Diane Drake :: Great Movie Scene: The Deer Hunter :: ScriptShadow Script to … Read more