Best o/t Web 26 Feb

Story & Structure :: Hey, What’s the Big Idea? :: Short Act Three :: The Downside of TV’s Golden Age :: Silence is Golden: The Making of The Artist Script Perfection :: Screenwriting Tips: Characters Who Don’t Want or Need Anything :: Concept is King :: Script Review: The Disciple Program Pitching & Selling :: … Read more

Best o/t Web 21 Feb 10

:: Independent film, the new horizons. :: Why companies toss your spec script. :: Using dialect in your script, and how to go about it. :: “Descent”, what makes it genuinely scary. :: Three-act-structure, a review. :: How do you know if your screenplay is original? :: Characters in your script, when to name names. … Read more

Killing My Darlings

This blog started when a certain analysis of Michael Mann’s THE INSIDER sparked my frustration. Discussing BLADE RUNNER in a story workshop recently, I felt I was close to doing the exact same thing. To this date I don’t fully agree with her INSIDER analysis but Linda Aronson taught me this: to learn story, you … Read more