Best of the Web 7 Dec

Story & Structure :: Bad Writing Day? Get Inspired With This! :: “You Don’t Know Nothing. So Do Not Write What You Know.” Script Perfection :: Inspiring Screenwriting Advice from John August :: ‘Foxcatcher’ Screenplay Struggles :: Is Hollywood Really Killing the Art of Screenwriting? Best of the Rest :: NBR chooses ‘A Most Violent … Read more

Best of the Web 29 Dec

Story & Structure :: Great Character: Hans Gruber (“Die Hard”) :: The 10 Best Screenplays I Read This Year! :: Amateur Friday – The Jaguar’s Fang Script Perfection :: 30 Screenwriting Sites You Should Follow :: Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers :: Jack Kerouac’s 30 Points to Write and Live … Read more

Inspiration from a Slaughterhouse

Unmotivated. Lazy. Creatively constipated . Is this you? by Signe Olynyk After months of little progress, I tried this wondrous thing called the internet. I googled. Meat freezer. Slaughterhouse. Trapped in cooler. Words that I hoped would trigger some sort of creative anything. As I searched, I came across an abandoned, slaughterhouse near Edson, Alberta … Read more

[Video]: Chris Terrio on Argo

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An uncut conversation between screenwriter Chris Terrio (Argo, ) on reclusive contemplation, crippling debt, weathering the loneliness of writing and using desire to find one’s path. . If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know of a great video on Screenwriting, let us know in the comments. … Read more

[Video]: Why we fail, unless…

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Do you write as much as you should? Take a moment to watch this sobering talk tempered with a sparkling, wry sense of humour. The idiosyncratic professor of economics, Larry Smith, appears at TedX to discuss the nature of true passion, how fear presents itself in the form of distraction, and the price of pursuing … Read more